elefant

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elefant

1. elephant

Borrowed from Latin elephantem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ləˈfan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ləˈfant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [e.leˈfant]

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elefant m (plural elefants, feminine elefanta)

1. elephant

• “elefant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Via Latin elephantus from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās); replaced Old Danish fil (“elephant”), Old Norse fíll (cf. older Danish filsben (“ivory”)).

• IPA^(key): /ɛləˈfanˀd̥/, [eləˈfænˀd̥], [ell̩ˈfænˀt]

elefant c (singular definite elefanten, plural indefinite elefanter)

1. elephant

• “elefant” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “elefant” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

elefant m

1. elephant

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfãːt/

elefant m

1. elephant

• The entry "elefant" at the Lombard edition of Wiktionary

Borrowed from German Elefant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās). Compare Kashubian élefant

• IPA^(key): /ɛlɛˈfant/

elefant m animal

1. elephant

   Synonym: (literary) słon

• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “elefant”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

elefant m (definite singular elefanten, indefinite plural elefanter, definite plural elefantene)

1. elephant

• “elefant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

elefant m (definite singular elefanten, indefinite plural elefantar, definite plural elefantane)

1. elephant

• “elefant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [eleˈfan(t)]

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elefant m (plural elefants)

1. elephant

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfaŋt/

elefant m

1. elephant

Borrowed from French éléphant.

• IPA^(key): /eleˈfant/
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧fant

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elefant m (plural elefanți)

1. elephant (mammal)

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

From Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās), ἐλέφαντος (eléphantos).

elefant m (plural elefants)

1. elephant

Via Latin elephantus from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās); replaced Old Swedish fīl (“elephant”), Old Norse fíll.

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elefant c

1. an elephant

   smidig som en elefant i en porslinsbutik

   as agile as an elephant in a porcelain shop

• bete
• snabel

• elefant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• elefant in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• elefant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)