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See also: Appendix:Variations of "apar"
English
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Noun
apar (plural apars)
- The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus
- 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History, page 224:
- The apar is mainly diurnal in its habits; and trusts for defence to its power of rolling itself into a ball, not dwelling in burrows like the members of the other genera.
- 1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The Life of Animals: The Mammals, page 478:
- The apars are noted, indeed, for their lively and restless manners.
Translations
References
Southern three-banded armadillo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Basque
Pronunciation
Noun
apar inan
Declension
Further reading
- “apar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “apar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
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Icelandic
Noun
apar
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Spanish apar, from Old Tupi.
Pronunciation
Noun
apar m (invariable)
- synonym of mataco (“southern three-banded armadillo”)
Further reading
- apar in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Latvian
Verb
apar
- inflection of apart:
- (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of apart
- (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of apart
Luo
Numeral
apar
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
apar m or f
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *apar.
Adjective
apar (noun form apara)
Declension
Note: not all forms are attested. Most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Derived terms
Verb
apar (first-person singular active indicative aîapar, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîapari, noun apara) (transitive)
Conjugation
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
References
- Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “apara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 44, column 1
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Romanian
Etymology
Either from apă + -ar or from the Latin aquārius. Compare the borrowed doublet acvariu.
Pronunciation
Noun
apar m (plural apari)
Declension
Related terms
Verb
apar
- inflection of apărea:
Swedish
Verb
apar
- present indicative of apa
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