English
Noun
en-noun
- A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
- figurative Anything huge and ponderous.
Scientific names
Elephas maximus
Loxodonta africana
Derived terms
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African bush elephant
African elephant
African forest elephant
Asian elephant
Asiatic elephant
Borneo elephant, Borneo pygmy elephant
double elephant, double elephant paper
dwarf elephant
elephant apple
elephant bed
elephant beetle
elephant bird, elephantbird
elephant chess
elephant-color, elephant-colour
elephant cord
elephant creeper
elephant ear, elephant ears<!--type of food-->
elephant fish
elephant flipping
elephant folio
Elephant Gambit
elephant garlic
elephant grass
elephant-gravel
elephant-gray, elephant-grey
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elephant gun
w:Elephant Hall|Elephant Hall
elephant hawk moth
elephanticide
elephantide
elephant in Cairo
elephant in the corner, elephant in the kitchen, elephant in the living room, elephant in the room
w:Elephant Island|Elephant Island
elephantitis
elephant joke
elephant juice
elephant leg
w:Elephant Man|Elephant Man
elephant man's disease
elephant man's syndrome
elephant on the dinner table
elephant paper
elephant-path
elephant pearl
elephant polo
elephant-rain
elephantry
elephant's breath
elephant seal
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elephant's ear, elephant's ears
elephant's foot
elephant's foot umbrella stand<!--game: see Wikipedia article-->
elephant's-grass
elephants' graveyard
elephantship
elephant shrew
elephant's teeth
elephant's trunk, elephant trunk<!--rhyming slang
Elephant's Trunk Nebula<!--or Elephant's Trunk Nebula?-->
elephant's trunk plant
elephant's trunk snake
elephant's tusk
elephant's-tusks
elephant's-vine
elephant test
elephant trank
elephant tranquilizer, elephant tranquilliser, elephant tranquillizer
Elephant Trap
elephant tree
elephant-trumpet
elephant-trunk fish
Elephant Trunk nebula<!--or Elephant's Trunk nebula?-->
elephant-tusk<!--plant-->
elephant yam
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w:Flying Elephant|Flying Elephant
forest elephant
get a look at the elephant
imperial elephant
Indian elephant
Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant
Order of the Elephant
pad elephant
pink elephant<!--something extraordinary or impossible-->
pink elephants<!--hallucination-->
pseudelephant
pygmy elephant
retail elephant
rogue elephant
savanna elephant, savannah elephant
sea elephant
see the elephant
show the elephant
Sri Lankan elephant
straight-tusked elephant
Sumatran elephant
temple elephant
war elephant
water elephant
white elephant
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Related terms
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chryselephantine
elephancy
elephanta
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elephanter
elephantiac
elephantiasis
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elephantic
Elephantidae
elephantine
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elephantoid
Elephantopus
Elephas
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Translations
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Albanian: t-|sq|elefant|xs=Albanian
Arabic Arab|��� (fīl) m
Aramaic:
Armenian: �իղ (p�igh)
Azeri: fil
Basque: elefante
Belarusian: t-|be|�лон|m|trslon|scCyrl|xs=Belarusian
Bosnian: t-|bs|slon|m, t-|bs|slonica|f
Breton: olifant m, olifanted p
Bulgarian: t+|bg|�лон|m|trslon|scCyrl
Catalan: elefant
Cherokee: ��� (kamama)
Chinese: 象 (xià ng), 大象 (dà xià ng)
Croatian: t-|hr|slon|m, t-|hr|slonica|f
Czech: t-|cs|slon|m
Danish: t+|da|elefant
Dutch: t+|nl|olifant|m
Esperanto: t-|eo|elefanto|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: t-|et|elevant
Faroese: t-|fo|fÃlur|m|xs=Faroese
Finnish: t+|fi|norsu, t+|fi|elefantti
French: t+|fr|éléphant|m
Frisian: oaljefant
Friulian: elefant
Galician: elefante m
German: t+|de|Elefant|m
Greek, Ancient: á¼�λÎÏ�αÏ� (eléphas) m
Greek: t-|el|ελÎÏ�ανÏ�αÏ�|m|sc=Grek (eléfantas)
Hebrew: t+|he|פ��|altפִּ��|trpil|sc=Hebr
Hindi: हाथ� (h�thī), हस�त� (hastī), �� (gaj)
Hungarian: t+|hu|elefánt
Icelandic: t+|is|fÃll|m
Indonesian: t|id|gajah|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: elephante
Irish: t|ga|eilifint|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|elefante|m
Japanese: 象 (��, z�)
Korean: ��리 (kokkiri)
Kurdish: t-|ku|Ù�Û�Ù�|sc=KUchar
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Ladin: elefant
Latin: t+|la|elephantus, t+|la|elephas
Latvian: t|lv|zilonis|m|xs=Latvian
Lithuanian: t|lt|dramblys|xs=Lithuanian
Lower Sorbian: elefant, (s�on)
Macedonian: �лон (slon) m
Malayalam: �ന (aana)
Maltese: t-|mt|iljunfant|xs=Maltese
Mongolian: t+|mn|заан|trzaan|scCyrl|xs=Mongolian
Norwegian: t+|no|elefant|m
Occitan: elefant
Old English: t-|ang|elpend|m|xs=Old English
Persian: fa-Arab|Ù�Û�Ù� (fil), fa-Arab|Ù¾Û�Ù� (pil)
Polish: t+|pl|s�o�|m, t-|pl|s�onica|f
Portuguese: t+|pt|elefante|m, t+|pt|elefanta|f
Romanian: t+|ro|elefant
Romansh: elefant
Romany: woroslano m woroslanka f
Russian: t+|ru|�лон|m|trslon|scCyrl
Sami: elefánta
Sanskrit: �ठ(ibhas) m, �� (gaja) m
Sardinian: elefante/elefanti
Scottish: ailbhean
Serbian:
Slovak: t-|sk|slon|m
Slovene: t+|sl|slon|m, t-|sl|slonica|f
Spanish: t+|es|elefante|m
Swahili: t-|sw|ndovu|xsSwahili, t-|sw|tembo|xsSwahili
Swedish: t+|sv|elefant
Telugu: t|te|�న���|sc=Telu (aenugu)
Thai: THchar|��า� (chang)
Turan: pil
Turkish: t+|tr|fil
Ukrainian: t-|uk|�лон|m|trslon|scCyrl|xs=Ukrainian
Upper Sorbian: elefant, (s�on)
Urdu: ur-Arab|�اتھ� (h�thī), ur-Arab|�ست� (hastī), ur-Arab|��� (fīl), ur-Arab|پ�� (pīl), ur-Arab|گج (gaj)
Welsh: t|cy|eliffant|xs=Welsh
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