Giraffe

Noun

 * 1) A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns.
 * 2)  A laugh.
 * He is having a giraffe!

Verbs for Giraffe
anger—; arouse—; cage—; exhibit—; lasso —; pet—; train—; —ambles; —batters; — browses; —forages; —gallops; —herd; — kicks; —plucks; —roams; —straddles.

Thesaurus
Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose, mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, springbok, stag, wildebeest

Etymology
From giraffe: (now girafe:), from  زرافة:, from  ܙܵܪܝܼܦܵܐ:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/dZ@"r\{f/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/dZ@"r\{f/}}

Synonyms

 * camelopard

Derived terms

 * giraffe weevil
 * Kilimanjaro giraffe
 * Kordofan giraffe
 * Masai giraffe
 * Nigerian giraffe
 * Nubian giraffe


 * Rhodesian giraffe
 * smoky giraffe
 * Somali giraffe
 * South African giraffe
 * Rothschild giraffe
 * Ugandan giraffe

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kameelperd
 * Albanian: gjirafë
 * Amuzgo: kió' xtyo' tkò
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ընձուղտ (ënjuġt)
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: jirafa
 * Belarusian: жырафа
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: girafa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian: žirafa
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ĝirafo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: ג׳ירף
 * Hindi: जिराफ़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sioráf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean:, (麒麟)
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: žirafe
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: zirafah
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, شترگاوپلنگ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: giraffa
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: жирафа
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dyirap
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: జిరాఫీ (jiraaphI)
 * Thai: ยีราฟ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: žiraf
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: جراف
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: giraf,  higiraf,  jigiraf,  girafül,  higirafül,  jigirafül
 * Welsh: jiráff
 * Yiddish: דזשעראַף

Anagrams

 * riffage

Noun
giraffe