okapi

An okapi (Okapia johnstoni).

Borrowed from Mvuba okapi.[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈkɑːpi/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊˈkɑpi/

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• (General South African) IPA^(key): /əʊˈkɑːpi/
• Hyphenation: oka‧pi

okapi (plural okapi or okapis)

1. A large ruminant mammal, of species Okapia johnstoni, found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on its hindquarters. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: Congolese giraffe, forest giraffe, zebra giraffe

   • 1901 September, Harry [i.e., Henry] H[amilton] Johnston, “The Okapi: The Newly-discovered Beast Living in Central Africa”, in McClure’s Magazine, volume XVII, number 5, New York, N.Y., London: S[amuel] S[idney] McClure Co., →OCLC, pages 498 and 499:

     [page 498, column 1] [I]n leading them [African Pygmies] back to the forests where they dwelt, I obtained much information from them on the subject of the horse-like animal which they called the "Okapi." […] [page 499, column 1] The coloration of the Okapi is quite extraordinary. […] The hind quarters, hind and fore legs are either snowy white or pale cream color, touched here and there with orange. They are boldly marked, however, with purple-black stripes and splodges, which give that zebra-like appearance to the limbs of the Okapi that caused the first imperfect account of it to indicate the discovery of a new striped horse.

   • 1902 November 18, C[harles] I[mmanuel] Forsyth Major, “On a Specimen of the Okapi Lately Received at Brussels”, in Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, volume I, London: […] [Zoological] Society [of London]; Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 344:

     Personally I esteem it a more fascinating and a more important task to investigate the relations of the Okapi with the Giraffe on the one hand, and its fossil relatives on the other.

   • 1904, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “Reginald’s Christmas Revel”, in Reginald, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 98:

     [O]ne day I quite modestly gave the dimensions of an okapi I had shot in the Lincolnshire fens. The Major turned a beautiful Tyrian scarlet (I remember thinking at the time that I should like my bathroom hung in that colour), and I think that at that moment he almost found it in his heart to dislike me.

   • 1915 August 26, H[enry] H[amilton] Johnston, “Life Habits of the Okapi”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume 95, number 2391, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 714, column 1:

     Dr. [Cuthbert] Christy adds his testimony to that of his predecessors in the same quest as to the "invisibility" of the okapi, whose markings and coloration—pace Colonel Theodore Roosevelt—so break up the surface of its large body and long legs as to cause it to fuse with the dark-brown, russet, while and yellow-white of the twigs and stems and leaf-stalks amongst which it moves. He also points out that the hoofs of the okapi are so closely pressed together that the footprint is almost like that of the single-toed donkey.

   • 1922 May, T[homas] Alexander Barns, “To the Game-haunted Solitudes of Ruchuru and Ruindi Plains”, in The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo: The Region of the Snow-crowned Volcanoes, the Pygmies, the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi, London, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 99:

     I also took out a licence to shoot small game, costing fifty francs, which can be obtained on the spot, and under which I was able to shoot all kinds of game, excepting elephants, chimpanzis, gorillas and okapis.

• Giraffidae

• Giraffa
• giraffe

• okapi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Okapia johnstoni on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Okapia johnstoni on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• okapia

• IPA^(key): [ˈokapɪ]
• Rhymes: -apɪ

okapi f or m anim

1. okapi (large ruminant mammal)

when masculine:

Indeclinable when feminine.

• okapi in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• okapi in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Mvuba okapi.

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• Hyphenation: oka‧pi

okapi m (plural okapi's, diminutive okapietje n)

1. okapi

From English okapi, from Mvuba okapi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈokɑpi/, [ˈo̞kɑ̝pi]
• Rhymes: -okɑpi
• Syllabification^(key): o‧ka‧pi

okapi

1. okapi

• “okapi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• poika, pokia

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ka.pi/

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okapi m (plural okapis)

1. okapi

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

okapi

1. Rōmaji transcription of オカピ

Borrowed from Mvuba okapi.

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈka.pi/

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• Rhymes: -api
• Syllabification: o‧ka‧pi

okapi m animal or f or n (indeclinable)

1. okapi (Okapia johnstoni)

• okapi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• okapi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• ocapi

• IPA^(key): /oˈkapi/ [oˈka.pi]
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• Rhymes: -api
• Syllabification: o‧ka‧pi

okapi m (plural okapis)

1. okapi

• “okapi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014