jaguar

See also: Jaguar, jaguár, jagúar, and jagùar

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Jaguar

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/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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Noun

jaguar (plural jaguars)

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

Derived terms

• European jaguar

 

Translations

Panthera onca

• Afrikaans: jaguar (af)
• Arabic: يغور m (yağwar)

  Hijazi Arabic: جَقْوَر m (jagwar)

• Araona: iba
• Armenian: յագուար (hy) (yaguar)
• Asturian: xaguar (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: yaquar (az)
• Borôro: adügo
• Bulgarian: ягуа́р (bg) m (jaguár)
• Catalan: jaguar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲豹 (zh) (měizhōubào)

• Czech: jaguár (cs) m
• Danish: jaguar c
• Dutch: jaguar (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaguaro
• Estonian: jaaguar (et)
• Faroese: jaguarur m
• Finnish: jaguaari (fi)
• French: jaguar (fr) m
• Galician: xaguar (gl) m
• Georgian: იაგუარი (iaguari)
• German: Jaguar (de) m
• Greek: ιαγουάρος (el) m (iagouáros), τζάγκουαρ (el) m (tzágkouar)
• Hebrew: יגואר (he)
• Hindi: जैगुआर (jaiguār)
• Huaorani: mẽnẽ
• Hungarian: jaguár (hu)
• Indonesian: jaguar (id)
• Irish: iaguar m
• Isthmus Zapotec: beedxeʼ
• Italian: giaguaro (it)
• Japanese: ジャガー (ja) (jagā), アメリカ豹 (amerikahyō)
• Kaqchikel: b’alam
• Korean: 재규어 (ko) (jaegyueo)
• Latvian: jaguārs m
• Macedonian: јагуар m (jaguar)
• Malay: jaguar
• Maltese: ġagwar m
• Mamaindé: jañan
• Mapudungun: nawel
• Mayo: yóoko
• Nahuatl:

  Central: ocelotl

  Central Huasteca: oselotl

  Classical: ocelotl

  Western Huasteca: tekuajketl

• Navajo: Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ náshdóítsoh łikizhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jaguar (no) m

  Nynorsk: jaguar m

• Occitan: jaguar (oc) m
• Old Tupi: îagûara
• Paumarí: jomahi hiihiha f
• Polish: jaguar (pl) m
• Portuguese: jaguar (pt) m, onça (pt) f
• Quechua: uturunku, uthurunku
• Romanian: jaguar (ro) m
• Russian: ягуа́р (ru) m (jaguár)
• Saliba (Colombia): ũpu
• Serbo-Croatian: jaguar (sh) m
• Sicilian: sciaguaru m
• Spanish: jaguar (es) m, tigre (es) m (Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, especially rural usage), yaguareté (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay), jaguar (es) m, yaguareté (es) m
• Swahili: jagwa
• Swedish: jaguar (sv) c
• Tagalog: haguwar
• Tariana: yawi
• Thai: เสือจากัวร์ (th) (suea cha kua)
• Turkish: jaguar (tr)
• Vietnamese: báo đốm, báo đốm châu Mỹ
• Warao: tobe
• Yao (South America): aroua
• Yucatec Maya: báalam

See also

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

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəˈɣwar]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaˈɣwar]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• 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/

• Audio:

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• 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.

     Wat den puma en den jaguar betreft, het blykt duidelyk uit de beſchryvingen van hun, die deze dieren gezien hebben, dat de puma geen leeuw is, en de jaguar geen tyger; […]

     As for the puma and the jaguar, it clearly appears from the descriptions by them, who have seen these animals, that the cougar is not a lion, and [that] the jaguar is not a tiger; […]

Derived terms

• weerjaguar

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/

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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

• Audio:

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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

jaguar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaˈɡu.ar/

• Audio:

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• 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

Declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguary
genitive	jaguara	jaguarów
dative	jaguarowi	jaguarom
accusative	jaguara	jaguary
instrumental	jaguarem	jaguarami
locative	jaguarze	jaguarach
vocative	jaguarze	jaguary

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Um jaguar

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaʁ/ [ʒaˈɡwah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaʁ/ [ʒaˈɡwah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaʁ/ [ʒaˈɡwaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaɾ/ [ʒaˈɣwaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwaɾ/ [ʒaˈɣwaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒaˈɡwa.ɾi/ [ʒaˈɣwa.ɾi]

• 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

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	jaguar	jaguarul		jaguari	jaguarii
genitive-dative	jaguar	jaguarului		jaguari	jaguarilor
vocative	jaguarule			jaguarilor

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

Declension of jaguar

	singular	plural
nominative	jaguar	jaguari
genitive	jaguara	jaguara
dative	jaguaru	jaguarima
accusative	jaguara	jaguare
vocative	jaguaru	jaguari
locative	jaguaru	jaguarima
instrumental	jaguarom	jaguarima

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈɡwaɾ/ [xaˈɣ̞waɾ]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• 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

Declension of jaguar

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	jaguar	jaguars
	definite	jaguaren	jaguarens
plural	indefinite	jaguarer	jaguarers
	definite	jaguarerna	jaguarernas

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]

• Audio:

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Noun

jaguar (definite accusative jaguarı, plural jaguarlar)

1. jaguar

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	jaguar
Definite accusative	jaguarı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	jaguar	jaguarlar
Definite accusative	jaguarı	jaguarları
Dative	jaguara	jaguarlara
Locative	jaguarda	jaguarlarda
Ablative	jaguardan	jaguarlardan
Genitive	jaguarın	jaguarların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarım jaguarlarım 2nd singular jaguarın jaguarların 3rd singular jaguarı jaguarları 1st plural jaguarımız jaguarlarımız 2nd plural jaguarınız jaguarlarınız 3rd plural jaguarları jaguarları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarımı jaguarlarımı 2nd singular jaguarını jaguarlarını 3rd singular jaguarını jaguarlarını 1st plural jaguarımızı jaguarlarımızı 2nd plural jaguarınızı jaguarlarınızı 3rd plural jaguarlarını jaguarlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarıma jaguarlarıma 2nd singular jaguarına jaguarlarına 3rd singular jaguarına jaguarlarına 1st plural jaguarımıza jaguarlarımıza 2nd plural jaguarınıza jaguarlarınıza 3rd plural jaguarlarına jaguarlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarımda jaguarlarımda 2nd singular jaguarında jaguarlarında 3rd singular jaguarında jaguarlarında 1st plural jaguarımızda jaguarlarımızda 2nd plural jaguarınızda jaguarlarınızda 3rd plural jaguarlarında jaguarlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarımdan jaguarlarımdan 2nd singular jaguarından jaguarlarından 3rd singular jaguarından jaguarlarından 1st plural jaguarımızdan jaguarlarımızdan 2nd plural jaguarınızdan jaguarlarınızdan 3rd plural jaguarlarından jaguarlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular jaguarımın jaguarlarımın 2nd singular jaguarının jaguarlarının 3rd singular jaguarının jaguarlarının 1st plural jaguarımızın jaguarlarımızın 2nd plural jaguarınızın jaguarlarınızın 3rd plural jaguarlarının jaguarlarının