"Tarzan" meaning in English

See Tarzan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈtɑɹzæn/ [General-American]
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). Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Edgar Rice Burroughs}} Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Tarzan
  1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes. Categories (topical): Fiction, American fiction, Fictional characters, Stock characters Derived forms: Tarzana, Tarzanesque, Tarzanian, Tarzan swing Translations (fictional character): Tarzan (Dutch), Tarzán [masculine] (Galician), Ταρζάν (Tarzán) (Greek), טרזן [masculine] (Hebrew), Тарзан (english: Tarzan) [masculine] (Macedonian), टार्जन (ṭārjan) [masculine] (Marathi), Tarzan [masculine] (Polish), Tarzan [masculine] (Portuguese), Tarzan [masculine] (Romanian), Тарза́н (Tarzán) [masculine] (Russian), Tarzán [masculine] (Spanish), Tarzan [common-gender] (Swedish)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɑɹzæn/ [General-American] Forms: Tarzans [plural]
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). Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Edgar Rice Burroughs}} Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs Head templates: {{en-noun}} Tarzan (plural Tarzans)
  1. (by extension) A strong wild man. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-Tarzan-en-noun-0e6A8weB Disambiguation of People: 15 85 Categories (other): Terms with Macedonian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 50 50

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.