jaguar

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.jʊə/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ə/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.juː.ɑː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.wɑɹ/, /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.(j)u.ɑɹ/, (dialectally) /ˈd͡ʒæɡ.waɪɚ/

Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

2. A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• jaguarundi
• jaguar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Panthera onca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəˈɣwar]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaˈɣwar]
• Hyphenation: ja‧guar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jaguar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “jaguar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jaguar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara. The contemporary pronunciation derives from English jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌɑr/, /ˈdʒɛ.ɡuˌər/
• (dated in the Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈjaː.ɣyˌɑr/
• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars, diminutive jaguartje n)

1. jaguar [from late 18th c.]
   • 1777, De Buffon, De algemeene en byzondere natuurlyke historie, vol. 5, part 1, tr. from French, J. H. Schneider (publ.), page 5.

Derived terms

• weerjaguar

References

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɡwaʁ/

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar (cat)
2. Jaguar (Mac OS 10.2)

Noun

jaguar f (plural jaguars)

1. jaguar (car)
2. Jaguar (British car manufacturer)

Further reading

• “jaguar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Malay

Etymology

From English jaguar, from Portuguese, from Old Tupi jaguara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaɡua(r)/
• Rhymes: -ua(r), -wa(r), -a(r)

Noun

jaguar (Jawi spelling جاݢوار, plural jaguar-jaguar, informal 1st possessive jaguarku, 2nd possessive jaguarmu, 3rd possessive jaguarnya)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Further reading

• “jaguar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Pronunciation

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarer, definite plural jaguarene)

1. a jaguar, Panthera onca.

References

• “jaguar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jaguar” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Noun

jaguar m (definite singular jaguaren, indefinite plural jaguarar, definite plural jaguarane)

1. a jaguar, Panthera onca

References

• “jaguar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaˈɡu.ar/
• Rhymes: -uar
• Syllabification: ja‧gu‧ar
• Homophone: Jaguar

Etymology 1

Internationalism; compare English jaguar, French jaguar, German Jaguar, ultimately from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Noun

jaguar m animal

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English Jaguar. Genericized trademark.

Noun

jaguar m animal

1. Jaguar car

Declension

Further reading

• jaguar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jaguar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Ultimately from Old Tupi îagûara, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jawar. Doublet of jaguara.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ja‧guar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca, a feline of Latin America)

   Synonyms: onça, onça-pintada

Usage notes

In Brazil, jaguars are more commonly called onça or onça-pintada, and jaguar is mainly used in literature.

Related terms

• jaguara, jaguaraíva, jaguaré, jaguaretê, jaguatirica

Descendants

• → Catalan: jaguar
• → English: jaguar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French jaguar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɡuˈar/

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguari)

1. jaguar

Declension

References

• jaguar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâɡuaːr/
• Hyphenation: ja‧gu‧ar

Noun

jȁguār m (Cyrillic spelling ја̏гуа̄р)

1. jaguar

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈɡwaɾ/ [xaˈɣ̞waɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ja‧guar

Noun

jaguar m (plural jaguares)

1. jaguar (Panthera onca)

   Synonyms: yaguareté, otorongo

Further reading

• “jaguar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Noun

jaguar c

1. a jaguar (cat)

Declension

References

• jaguar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jaguar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jaguar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ژاغوآر (jaguar), from French jaguar, from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʒɑ.ɡʊ.ɑɾ]

Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension