tamarin

See also: Tamařin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tamarín (“tamarin”), from tupi-guarani tamari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæməɹɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tamarin (plural tamarins)

1. One of a family of squirrel-sized South American monkeys.

Derived terms

• cottontop tamarin
• emperor tamarin
• golden lion tamarin
• lion tamarin

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: タマリン

Translations

monkey

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: tití (ast) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 檉柳猴／柽柳猴 (chēngliǔhóu)

• Finnish: tamariini (fi)
• French: tamarin (fr) m
• Georgian: ტამარინი (ṭamarini)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: タマリン (tamarin)
• Kazakh: тамарин (tamarin)
• Romanian: tamarin (ro) m
• Russian: тамари́н (ru) m (tamarín)

Further reading

• tamarin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Martian, Martina, martian

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ma.ʁɛ̃/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French tamarin, from earlier tamarinde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy).

Noun

tamarin m (plural tamarins)

2. tamarind

Descendants

• → Romanian: tamarin

Etymology 2

From earlier tamary, from a Tupi-Guarani language; influenced in form by Etymology 1.

Noun

tamarin m (plural tamarins)

2. tamarin

Descendants

• → English: tamarin
  • → Japanese: タマリン
• → Romanian: tamarin

Etymology 3

Noun

tamarin m (plural tamarins)

2. axilspot hogfish (Bodianus axillaris), coral pigfish, turncoat hogfish

Further reading

• “tamarin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Japanese

Romanization

tamarin

1. Rōmaji transcription of タマリン

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tamarin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.maˈrin/

Noun

tamarin m (plural tamarini)

1. tamarind

   Synonym: tamarind

2. tamarin

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tamarin	tamarinul		tamarini	tamarinii
genitive-dative	tamarin	tamarinului		tamarini	tamarinilor
vocative	tamarinule			tamarinilor

Further reading

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