Words About Elephants
How do YOU say Elephant ??
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Elephanteria Library Words About Elephants |
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| Language or Nation [source] | = | Phonetic Word (Romanized) | ||||
| Afrikaans [2] | = | olifant | ||||
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ASL [American Sign Language][37] |
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| Arabic [21] | = |
fel, (sound = feel)
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| Armenian [22] | = | piugh (sound = pee oogh) | ||||
| Azerbaijani [28] | = | fil | ||||
| Basque [1] | = | elefante | ||||
| Belorussian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Braille [38] | = |
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| Bulgarian [3, 28] | = | slon | ||||
| Cambodian [23] | = | domrey | ||||
| Catalan [1] | = | elefante | ||||
| Chinese [13] | = |
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| Croatian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Cypress [33] | = |
elefantas,
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| Czech [1, 28] | = | slon | ||||
| Danish [1] | = | elefant | ||||
| Dutch [1] | = | olifant | ||||
| English | = | elephant | ||||
| Estonian [4] | = | elevant | ||||
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Farsi [34] |
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feel, (transliteration)
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| Finnish [5] | = | elefantti, norsu | ||||
| French [40] | = | éléphant | ||||
| Gaelic, Irish [15] | = | eilifint | ||||
| Gaelic, Manx [15] | = | elefant | ||||
| Gaelic, Scottish [15] | = | ailbhean | ||||
| Galego (Spain) | = | elefante | ||||
| German [1] | = | elefant | ||||
| Greek | = |
elefantas,
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| Hebrew [18] | = |
peel, (transliteration)
 (also see Yiddish) | ||||
| Hindi [24] | = | hathi (sound = haw tee, haughty) | ||||
| Hmong [6] | = | ntxhw (tus) | ||||
| Icelandic [14] | = | fíll | ||||
| Indonesian [7] | = | gajah | ||||
| Italian [1] | = | elefante | ||||
| Javanese [10] | = | gajah | ||||
| Japanese [29] | = | zo (Romanized) | ||||
| Kazak [28] | = | pil | ||||
| Khowar (Farsi) [11] | = | fil | ||||
| Kikuyu [25] | = | ndovu | ||||
| Kiribati [16] | = | erebanti (sounds: erebansh ?) | ||||
| Korean [20] | = |
kokiri,
(transliteral, koh k(g)ih ri)
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Latin [1] Latin [2] |
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elephanten barrus, elephantus | ||||
| Latvian [1] | = | zilonis | ||||
| Lithuanian [28] | = | dramblys | ||||
| Lugha [25] | = | indofu | ||||
| Macedonian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Madagascar [27] | = | elefanta (sound=elephant) | ||||
| Magyar (Hungarian) [1] | = | elefánt | ||||
| Maori [8] | = | arewhana | ||||
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Morse Code [36] [Click speaker to HEAR] |
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| Norwegian [9] | = | elefant | ||||
| Pashtu [11] | = | pil | ||||
| Polish [19, 28] | = | slon | ||||
| Portuguese [1] | = | elefante | ||||
| Romanian [26] | = | elefant | ||||
| Russian [19, 28] | = |
slon (Romanized)
(Cyrillic) | ||||
| Serbian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Semaphore Flags [39] | = |
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| Signal Flags [35] | = |
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| Slovak [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Slovenian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Spanish [1] | = | elefante | ||||
| Sri Lanka [30] | = | aliya, atha, hasthiya | ||||
| Swahili [17] | = | tembo or ndovo | ||||
| Turkish [41] | = | fil | ||||
| Ukrainian [28] | = | slon | ||||
| Urdu [12] | = | haathi | ||||
| Uzbek [31] | = | pheel | ||||
| Vietnamese [32] | = | con voi | ||||
| Yiddish [18] | = | helfond (transliteration) | ||||
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Footnotes to translations: 1. from Logos Dictionary at http://www.logos.it 2. from Travlang's at http://dictionaries/travalang.com 3. from Rechnik: Bulgarian Dictionary at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/ 4. from English-Estonian Dictionary at http://www.ibs.ee 5. from Mofile Place Dictionary Page at http://www.mofile.fi/ Our query returned both words as nouns in Finnish. The English-Finnish dictionary at Travlang returned only 'norsu'. 6. from English-Hmong Dictionary at http://ww2.saturn.stpaul.k12.mn.us/Hmong/Dictionary/Eng-Hmong/eWords.html 7. from Kamus Indonesia-Inggris at http://www.iit.edu/~syafsya 8. from Te Wahapu Web Public Access at http://www.dia.govt.nz 9. Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:52:32 -0700 From: Royal Norwegian Consulate General Subject: Re: elephants The Norwegian translation of the word elephant is almost similar: elefant and the prononciation is straight away. Norcons 10. Mon Aug 18 22:50:42 1997 From: Marmo Soemarmo 11. From - Mon Aug 18 22:50:24 1997 To: wildheart@q-net.net, Sloan@ishipress.com From: Sam Sloan 12. From - Mon Aug 18 22:51:00 1997 To: wildheart@q-net.net From: Waseem Siddiqi 13. from OK88 English-Chinese Dictionary at http://www.ok88.com. We have no idea what this says ... it's the character returned on search. 14. From: aldisg@ees.is (Aldis Gudmundsdottir) Subject: Re: elephants To: wildheart@q-net.net Wayne Hepburn, I'm answering for Aldis as she is on vacation now. The word for elephant is "fill" and the letter i has an acute accent but I guess it would be garbled if I wrote it in this letter. Let's give it a try: í Maybe you know about the Icelandic declension system: nominative: fill accusative: fil ablative: fil genitive: fils the i always keeps the acute accent. Best regards, Ingibjoerg Briem Aldís Guðmundsdóttir Sími 560-9943 Bréfasími 562-4825 Þýðingamiðstöð Internet: aldisg@ees.is Utanríkisráðuneytisins http://www.utn.stjr.is/ees/ Rauðarárstíg 25, 150 Reykjavík 15. Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 15:52:54 +0100 (BST) From: "Caoimhin P. ODonnaile" Irish Gaelic: eilifint Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean Manx Gaelic: elefant Caoimhín MANY thanx Caoimhín. It's wonderful how people on the internet will help each other with information. 16. Tue Aug 19 10:04:33 1997 From: Jonathan Willis-Richards Jonathan Willis-Richards [Thanks very much Jonathan] 17. Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:54:38 -0400 From: Bill Keefe To: wildheart@q-net.net Subject: Re: elephants In Swahili it's ndovo or tembo, the latter I think is more common, but I'm not sure. Bill 18. Wed Aug 20 20:37:13 1997 From: DavkaCorp@aol.com To: wildheart@q-net.net Subject: Re: elephants Yiddish for elephant transliterated in English: Helfond Hebrew for elephant transliterated in English: Peel I hope this helps. [Yes. Thanx] Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:15:39 -0400 From: ask@israelemb.org (Israel Embassy) To: wildheart@q-net.net Subject: Re: elephants Dear Mr. Hepburn: In response to your question, elephant in Hebrew is Peel, spelled in hebrew peh, yud, lamed. Have a nice afternoon. Sincerely, Ian Simpson Office of Public Affairs EMBASSY OF ISRAEL 3514 International Dr., NW Office of Public Affairs Washington, DC 20008 USA Tel: (202) 364-5500 ask@israelemb.org Fax: (202) 364-5423 http://www.israelemb.org Date: Tue 7 Oct 1997 From: Shlomit Pinter Gif file of Hebrew character set from Noa. Many Thanx. 19. Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 13:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen A Rondestvedt 20. Korean; block style characters = Koh K(g)ik Ri sounds kokiri. Thanks to Brian Chung at Orange Grocery, Sarasota, FL. We attempted to replivcate the characters Brian wrote for us. If you can supply better gif, 25 pixels high, please do so. 21. arabic fel sounds feel; thanks to Jeff at King Meat Market, Sarasota, FL. 22. Mon Aug 18 22:33:54 1997 From: "Raffi Kojian" To: The translation is piugh. pronounced pee oogh. the gh is a hard sound for many Amricans to make. It is pronounced like the R is in German. If you have watched "Hogans Heros" you should be OK ;-) n_w$$h http://www.netcom.com/~kojian 23. Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:24:39 -0500 From: Royal Embassy of Cambodia to USA To: wildheart@q-net.net ELEPHANT = DOMREY Royal Embassy of Cambodia to the United States of America Web Page: http://www.embassy.org/cambodia E-mail: cambodia@embassy.org 24. Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:26:44 +0930 To: wildheart@q-net.net From: rkskilli@dove.mtx.net.au (Keith Skillicorn) Subject: HINDI WORD FOR ELEPHANT Dear Wayne, I lived and worked in India for 31 years, travelling extensively though many different provinces, but only ever came upon one word for Elephant and that is the HINDI word :- HATHI pronounced "HA", AS IN "HARPOON", AND "THI", AS IN "TEASPOON" . I shall ask some of my Indian friends if they know of other Indian words and, if there are, I shall inform you accordingly. Best Wishes. Keith Skillicorn, Ruth and Keith Skillicorn INTERNATIONAL BENEVOLENT SERVICES http://www.webspawner.com/users/SkilliIBS/ [Thank you Keith.] 25. Mon 25 Aug 1997 from Phyllis Achila, Africa Online Ltd, PO Box 63017, Nairobi, Kenya, http://www.africaonline.co.ke. [many thanx]. 26. Mon 25 AUg 1997 from Diana Zaiu at Romanian Embassy. [Thak you Diana]. 27. Mon 8 Sep 1997 11:53:04-0400 (EDT) from: malagasy@embassy.org (Embasssy of Madagascar) Upon your request on AUgust 21, 1997 please find hereunder the trnaslation into the language of Madagascar for the word "ELEPHANT": ELEFANTA and it is pronounced exactly the same way you pronounce "Elephant" in English. Sincerely, Embassy of Madagascar. 28. Russian = slon, Belorussian = slon, Ukrainian = slon, Polish = slon, Czech = slon, Slovak = slon, Bulgarian = slon, Serbian = slon, Croatian = slon, Slovenian = slon, Macedonian = slon, Hungarian = elefant, Romanian = elefant, Estonian = elefant, Latvian = zilonis, Lithuanian = dramblys, Kazak = pil, Azerbaijani =fil, Teresa Tickle Slavic Reference Service, Univ Illinois Urbana-Champaign, tickle@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 29. Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:34:30 +0900 To: wildheart@q-net.net From: jonathan@shaken.iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jonathan Lewis) Subject: Re: elephants Wayne The word you want is zo That's with a long "o" sound as in "sew". It's often write with a straight line over the o to show that it's a long "o" -- I won't attempt it here because it wooon't make it through the ASCII. I don't know if your software can display Japanese, but the character is .$B>].(B Good luck Jonathan Lewis Institute of Social Science, Univ. Tokyo 30. Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:29:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Embassy of Sri Lanka-Washington 31. From - Fri Aug 22 04:10:41 1997 Received: from reston-mx1.telemail.net Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:23:45 -0400 (EDT) From: /I=./G=USAN/S=RU/O=UZPAC/@sovmail.sprint.com Subject: RE: elephants Elephant in Uzbek is " Pheel" Good luck! 32. Via teacher Arlene Dobra at Booker High School from a student of Vietnamese parentage. 33. On letterhead from the Embassy of Cyprus, Washington DC Dear Mr. Hepburn: In response to your request for the translation of the word Elephant for your website please be informed that it is written in Greek as
and in Romanized characters as: "ELEFANTAS". We thank you for including Cypress.
Sincerely, Kostas Karistinos, Press Attache
34. Courtesy of Peter Neydavood 1998 July 28; http://www.travlang.com/languages/farsi/ 35. Signal flag images downloaded from http://www.connecti.com/~joelbee/sigflags.htm U.S. Navy Signal Flags by Joel A. Brookins, RMC, USN(Ret). Many Thanx. Flags also appear in symbol sets in CorelDRAW and numerous clipart sources. Shown are the flags for alphabet characters: E L E P H A N T 36. From a fascinating page which lets you translate from English to Morse Code http://madhatter.chch.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/library/morse and permits sound as well as visual translation. The sound option on this page is a wav file downloaded from the service. 37. American Sign Language hand positions for the characters that spell ELEPHANT in English. Widely available in font or clipart form. A web site http://www.masterstech-home.com/ offers ASL info including animations showing how to form letters and words. 38. Braille: Braille is an alphabet rather than a language and can be used by vision impaired persons to write and read numerous languages. It was created by Louis Braille, born January 4, 1809 at Coupvray, France 50 kilometers east of Paris. The Braille system uses a 'cell' of six dots which can be arranged to form the alphabet and numeric characters. The 'dots' are punched into paper from one side in a right-to-left direction then the raised dots are read from the other side by sensing them with fingertips in a left-to-right direction. We obtained a set of visual Braille characters from two web sites and created our own gif rendering shown on this page. 1.) Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon http://dots.physics.orst.edu/gs_braillestructure.html 2.) http://www.brailler.com/alphalg.gif site operated by Braille embossing machine maker: Enabling Technologies 1601 Northeast Braille Place Jensen Beach, Florida 34957 USA Phone: (561) 225 DOTS (3687) Fax: (561) 225 FAXX (3299) Phone toll free in continental USA: (800) 777 DOTS Fax toll free in continental USA: (800) 950 DOTS E-mail: enabling@brailler.com Web: http:// www.brailler.com 39. Semaphore: this a visual alphabet which uses flags held in specific positions to designate alphabet characters which can be used to communicate in any language which uses the common Roman alphabet employed by English. The Semaphore communicating system differs from the Signal Flags System which uses different flags for different characters ... Sempahore uses one flga design in various positions. We adapted our semaphore flags from a site: http://osprey.erin.gov.au/flags/semaphore.html by Jim Croft (jrc@anbg.gov.au). This is obviously a site on the server of the Australian government but we didn't find a link to any organization home page for proper attribution so we thank Jim Croft for putting the flags on line. 40. ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary. (University of Chicago) http://machaut.uchicago.edu/ éléphant = elephant [noun-masculine] l'éléphant = the elephant [noun-masculine] 41. Courtesy of Erol Ozcan via email 01/31/2000 |
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