See sifaka in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mg",
"3": "sifaka"
},
"expansion": "Malagasy sifaka",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Malagasy sifaka.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sifakas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sifaka (plural sifakas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 3 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malagasy translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Prosimians",
"orig": "en:Prosimians",
"parents": [
"Primates",
"Mammals",
"Vertebrates",
"Chordates",
"Animals",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"taxonomic": "Propithecus diadema",
"word": "diademed sifaka"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Propithecus verreauxi",
"word": "Verreaux's sifaka"
},
{
"alt": "= Verreaux's sifaka",
"word": "white sifaka"
},
{
"word": "For more"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2000, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Academic Press, page 62:",
"text": "Sifakas have single births, and infants ride first on their mother's front until they are about 3 months of age, then move to the mother's back, and they usually become totally independent at an age of about 6 months (Jolly 1996).",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Nick Garbutt, Hilary Bradt, Derek Schuurman, Madagascar Wildlife, Bradt Travel Guides, page 53:",
"text": "Coquerel's sifaka (P. coquereli) is easily seen in the northwestern regions. Its chestnut-coloured arms and thighs, and piercing yellow eyes, make it particularly handsome. Like all sifakas, the young are born in June and July.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:",
"text": "Sifakas can jump about ten metres (thirty-three feet) – a little further than the human long-jump world record – which is not bad given that they are less than two foot high.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus."
],
"id": "en-sifaka-en-noun-OYp8osXG",
"links": [
[
"lemur",
"lemur"
],
[
"genus",
"genus"
],
[
"Propithecus",
"Propithecus#Translingual"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎnhúhóu",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "冕狐猴"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sifaca"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"sifaka"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈfɑːkə/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav.ogg"
}
],
"word": "sifaka"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"taxonomic": "Propithecus diadema",
"word": "diademed sifaka"
},
{
"taxonomic": "Propithecus verreauxi",
"word": "Verreaux's sifaka"
},
{
"alt": "= Verreaux's sifaka",
"word": "white sifaka"
},
{
"word": "For more"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "mg",
"3": "sifaka"
},
"expansion": "Malagasy sifaka",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Malagasy sifaka.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sifakas",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sifaka (plural sifakas)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Malagasy",
"English terms derived from Malagasy",
"English terms with quotations",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Malagasy translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"en:Prosimians"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2000, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, 2nd edition, Academic Press, page 62:",
"text": "Sifakas have single births, and infants ride first on their mother's front until they are about 3 months of age, then move to the mother's back, and they usually become totally independent at an age of about 6 months (Jolly 1996).",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Nick Garbutt, Hilary Bradt, Derek Schuurman, Madagascar Wildlife, Bradt Travel Guides, page 53:",
"text": "Coquerel's sifaka (P. coquereli) is easily seen in the northwestern regions. Its chestnut-coloured arms and thighs, and piercing yellow eyes, make it particularly handsome. Like all sifakas, the young are born in June and July.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 258:",
"text": "Sifakas can jump about ten metres (thirty-three feet) – a little further than the human long-jump world record – which is not bad given that they are less than two foot high.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus."
],
"links": [
[
"lemur",
"lemur"
],
[
"genus",
"genus"
],
[
"Propithecus",
"Propithecus#Translingual"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"sifaka"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪˈfɑːkə/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-sifaka.wav.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "miǎnhúhóu",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "冕狐猴"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"word": "sifaka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "medium-sized lemur of the genus Propithecus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sifaca"
}
],
"word": "sifaka"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sifaka meaning in English (3.5kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). 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.