Tarzan

See also: tarzan and Tarzán

English

Etymology

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.

Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɹzæn/

Proper noun

Tarzan

1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.

Derived terms

• Tarzana
• Tarzanesque
• Tarzanian
• Tarzan swing

Translations

fictional character

• Dutch: Tarzan
• Galician: Tarzán m
• Greek: Ταρζάν (el) (Tarzán)
• Hebrew: טרזן (he) m
• Macedonian: Тарзан m (Tarzan)
• Marathi: टार्जन m (ṭārjan)
• Polish: Tarzan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tarzan m
• Romanian: Tarzan m
• Russian: Тарза́н (ru) m (Tarzán)
• Spanish: Tarzán m
• Swedish: Tarzan c

Noun

Tarzan (plural Tarzans)

1. (by extension) A strong wild man.
   • 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:

     There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.

Descendants

• Dutch: Tarzan
• Swedish: Tarzan

Further reading

• Tarzan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Proper noun

Tarzan

1. Tarzan

Derived terms

• Tarzanbocht

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)

1. Tarzan

Derived terms

• Spargeltarzan

Polish

Tarzan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtar.zan/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -arzan
• Syllabification: Tar‧zan
• Homophone: tarzan

Proper noun

Tarzan m pers

1. Tarzan (heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes)

Declension

Declension of Tarzan

	singular
nominative	Tarzan
genitive	Tarzana
dative	Tarzanowi
accusative	Tarzana
instrumental	Tarzanem
locative	Tarzanie
vocative	Tarzanie

Derived terms

noun

• tarzan

Further reading

• Tarzan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹taʂan/

Proper noun

Tarzan c (genitive Tarzans)

1. Tarzan

   dra en Tarzan

   jerk off ("pull a Tarzan") (idiomatic)

See also

• runka (“jerk off”)