"wapiti" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈwɑpɪti/ [US] Forms: wapitis [plural], wapiti [plural]
Etymology: From Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|sjw|waapiti|t=elk; white rump}} Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|wapiti}} wapiti (plural wapitis or wapiti)
  1. (US, Canada) The American elk (Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size. Wikipedia link: wapiti Tags: Canada, US Categories (lifeform): Cervids Synonyms: elk [North-America] Related terms: elk, moose Translations (the American elk): ponoká (Blackfoot), канадски елен (kanadski elen) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ᎠᏫ ᎡᏆ (awi equa) (Cherokee), mo'éhe (Cheyenne), 加拿大馬鹿 (Chinese Mandarin), 加拿大马鹿 (Jiānádà mǎlù) (Chinese Mandarin), wapiti [masculine] (Dutch), wapitihert [neuter] (Dutch), kanada cervo (Esperanto), vapiti (Estonian), vapiti (Finnish), kanadanhirvi (Finnish), wapiti [masculine] (French), Wapiti [masculine] (German), μεγάλο ελάφι (megálo eláfi) [neuter] (Greek), μεγάλη έλαφος (megáli élafos) [feminine] (Greek), tuttu (Greenlandic), ʻēleka (Hawaiian), गोज़न (gozan) (Hindi), vapiti (Hungarian), vaipití [masculine] (Irish), vapiti [masculine] (Italian), 와피티사슴 (wapitisaseum) (Korean), heȟáka (Lakota), се́верен е́лен (séveren élen) [masculine] (Macedonian), biche [feminine] (Michif), dzééh (Navajo), ópxą (Osage), wâwâskesiw (alt: ᐋᐧᐋᐧᐢᑫᓯᐤ) (Plains Cree), wapiti [masculine] (Polish), uapiti [masculine] (Portuguese), wapiti [masculine] (Portuguese), wapiti [masculine] (Romanian), оле́нь (olénʹ) [masculine] (Russian), благоро́дный оле́нь (blagoródnyj olénʹ) [masculine] (Russian), настоя́щий оле́нь (nastojáščij olénʹ) [masculine] (Russian), вапити (vapiti) (Russian), uapití [masculine] (Spanish), wapití [masculine] (Spanish), wapiti [common-gender] (Swedish), wapitihjort [common-gender] (Swedish), vapiti [common-gender] (Swedish), wapiti (Tagalog), ཤྭ་བ་རྔ་རིང (shwa ba rnga ring) (Tibetan), łioon (Tsimshian), mus (Unami), wapiti (Welsh), bį́į́h naldee' (Western Apache), wapiti [common-gender] (Zazaki)
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Inflected forms

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        "2": "sjw",
        "3": "waapiti",
        "t": "elk; white rump"
      },
      "expansion": "Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Shawnee waapiti (“elk; white rump”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wapitis",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wapiti",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "wapiti"
      },
      "expansion": "wapiti (plural wapitis or wapiti)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "elk"
    },
    {
      "word": "moose"
    }
  ],
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        "Terms with Blackfoot translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Cherokee translations",
        "Terms with Cheyenne translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Greenlandic translations",
        "Terms with Hawaiian translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Lakota translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Michif translations",
        "Terms with Navajo translations",
        "Terms with Osage translations",
        "Terms with Plains Cree translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Tibetan translations",
        "Terms with Tsimshian translations",
        "Terms with Unami translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations",
        "Terms with Western Apache translations",
        "Terms with Zazaki translations",
        "Tsimshian terms in nonstandard scripts",
        "en:Cervids"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877 April, Sanborn Tenney, “The Plant-Eaters of North America”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 10:",
          "text": "Of deer there are in North America perhaps eight species : the black-tailed deer of the Pacific coast ; the mule-deer, and the white-tailed deer, of the Upper Missouri region and westward; the common deer of the United States east of the Missouri ; the wapiti of the northern and northwestern portions of the United States; one or two species of reindeer ; and the moose of the northern portion of the continent. […] Next to the moose, the wapiti or American elk (Cervus Canadensis) is the largest deer in North America.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904 December 6, Theodore Roosevelt, Fourth State of the Union Address:",
          "text": "In connection with the work of the forest reserves I desire again to urge upon the Congress the importance of authorizing the President to set aside certain portions of these reserves or other public lands as game refuges for the preservation of the bison, the wapiti, and other large beasts once so abundant in our woods and mountains and on our great plains, and now tending toward extinction.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Saki, “The Occasional Garden”, in The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers:",
          "text": "You see, if we could keep giraffes or reindeer or some other species of browsing animal there we could explain the general absence of vegetation by a reference to the fauna of the garden: ‘You can’t have wapiti and Darwin tulips, you know, so we didn’t put down any bulbs last year.’ As it is, we haven’t got the wapiti, and the Darwin tulips haven’t survived the fact that most of the cats of the neighbourhood hold a parliament in the centre of the tulip bed; […].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The American elk (Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "elk",
          "elk"
        ],
        [
          "Cervus canadensis",
          "Cervus canadensis#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "red deer",
          "red deer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, Canada) The American elk (Cervus canadensis). It was formerly considered to be in the same species as the European red deer, which it somewhat exceeds in size."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "wapiti"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɑpɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "North-America"
      ],
      "word": "elk"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "apw",
      "lang": "Western Apache",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "bį́į́h naldee'"
    },
    {
      "code": "bla",
      "lang": "Blackfoot",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "ponoká"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kanadski elen",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "канадски елен"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "awi equa",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "ᎠᏫ ᎡᏆ"
    },
    {
      "code": "chy",
      "lang": "Cheyenne",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "mo'éhe"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "加拿大馬鹿"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Jiānádà mǎlù",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "加拿大马鹿"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "wapitihert"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "kanada cervo"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "vapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "vapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "kanadanhirvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "megálo eláfi",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "μεγάλο ελάφι"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "megáli élafos",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μεγάλη έλαφος"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "tuttu"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "ʻēleka"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "gozan",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "गोज़न"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "vapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vaipití"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "wapitisaseum",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "와피티사슴"
    },
    {
      "code": "lkt",
      "lang": "Lakota",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "heȟáka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "séveren élen",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "се́верен е́лен"
    },
    {
      "code": "crg",
      "lang": "Michif",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "biche"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "dzééh"
    },
    {
      "code": "osa",
      "lang": "Osage",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "ópxą"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ᐋᐧᐋᐧᐢᑫᓯᐤ",
      "code": "crk",
      "lang": "Plains Cree",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "wâwâskesiw"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "olénʹ",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оле́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blagoródnyj olénʹ",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "благоро́дный оле́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nastojáščij olénʹ",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "настоя́щий оле́нь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vapiti",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "вапити"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uapití"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "wapití"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "wapitihjort"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "vapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "shwa ba rnga ring",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "ཤྭ་བ་རྔ་རིང"
    },
    {
      "code": "tsi",
      "lang": "Tsimshian",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "łioon"
    },
    {
      "code": "unm",
      "lang": "Unami",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "mus"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "word": "wapiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "the American elk",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "wapiti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wapiti"
}

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