elefanta

elefanta

Esperanto

Etymology

From elefanto +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [eleˈfanta]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: e‧le‧fan‧ta

Adjective

elefanta (accusative singular elefantan, plural elefantaj, accusative plural elefantajn)

1. elephantine

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Lower Sorbian

Noun

elefanta

1. genitive singular of elefant
2. accusative singular of elefant
3. nominative dual of elefant

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Malagasy

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /elefaⁿtạ/

Noun

elefanta

1. elephant

   Synonym: trepo

Further reading

• elefanta in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ

Noun

elefanta f (plural elefantas)

1. female equivalent of elefante (“elephant”)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) elefoa, (rare) aliá, aleá

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Spanish

Noun

elefanta f (plural elefantas)

1. female equivalent of elefante (“elephant”)

Further reading

• “elefante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

From elefant +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛlɛˈfanˌta/

Verb

elefanta (present elefantar, preterite elefantade, supine elefantat, imperative elefanta)

1. (also reflexive) to trudge, plod (walk, step move heavily in a way that reminds the movement of an elephant)

   Jag kommer att elefanta iväg till jobbet.

   I will trudge to work.

   Eftersom jag kommer att elefanta iväg mig till jobbet...

   Because I will walk heavily to the work...

Usage notes

Mostly used with iväg (“away, off to”).

Conjugation

Conjugation of elefanta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	elefanta		elefantas
Supine	elefantat		elefantats
Imperative	elefanta		—
Imper. plural1	elefanten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	elefantar	elefantade	elefantas	elefantades
Ind. plural1	elefanta	elefantade	elefantas	elefantades
Subjunctive2	elefante	elefantade	elefantes	elefantades
	Participles
Present participle	elefantande
Past participle	elefantad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• “The open lexical infrastructure of Språkbanken”, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation‎, Istanbul: ELRA, 2012