tarsier

tarsier

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”)

Noun

tarsier

1. Used attributively as a specific epithet

Derived terms

• Tarsius tarsier

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English

Etymology

From French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta(ɹ)si.ə(ɹ)/

Noun

tarsier (plural tarsiers)

Philippine tarsier Tarsius syrichta

1. An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.

Translations

insectivorous primate

Arabic: تَارْسِير‎ m (tarsīr) Belarusian: даўгапя́т m (daŭhapját) Bulgarian: дългопе́т m (dǎlgopét) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: tarser Chinese: Mandarin: 眼鏡猴／眼镜猴 (zh) (yǎnjìnghóu) Czech: nártoun Danish: spøgelsesabe Dutch: spookdiertje (nl) n Finnish: kummituseläin (fi) French: tarsier (fr) m German: Koboldmaki m Hebrew: קוֹפִיף‎ (he) Hungarian: koboldmaki Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: tarsio (it) Japanese: メガネザル (meganezaru), 眼鏡猿 (めがねざる, meganezaru) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 안경원숭이 (an'gyeong'wonsung'i) Lao: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: ilgakulnis m Malay: kera hantu Navajo: mágí binááʼtsohígíí Norman: tarsyi Norwegian: spøkelsesaper Occitan: tarsièr Polish: wyrak (pl) Portuguese: társio (pt) m Russian: долгопя́т (ru) m (dolgopját) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: аветњаци, тарзијери Roman: avetnjaci, tarzijeri Spanish: tarsero m, tarsio m Swedish: spökdjur, vristdjur Tagalog: malmag, mamag Thai: ทาร์เซียร์ (taa-siia) Ukrainian: довгоп'я́т m (dovhopʺját) Vietnamese: phủ hầu Waray-Waray: magô White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Tarsius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• 'Arriets, artsier, serrati, starier, tarries

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French

Etymology

From tarse +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ.sje/

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Noun

tarsier m (plural tarsiers)

1. tarsier

Further reading

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