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Webster 1913 Edition

Tarsier

Tar′si-er

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Noun.

[Cf. F.

tarsier

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Definition 2024

tarsier

tarsier

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός ‎(tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”)

Noun

tarsier

Used attributively as a species epithet

Derived terms

Tarsius tarsier

English

Noun

tarsier ‎(plural tarsiers)

Philippine Tarsier Tarsius syrichta

An insectivorous primate of the Tarsiidae family, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.

Translations

insectivorous primate

Arabic: تَارْسِير m ‎(tarsīr)
Bulgarian: дългопети ‎(dǎlgopeti)
Catalan: tarser
Chinese:
Mandarin: 眼鏡猴 (zh), 眼镜猴 (zh) ‎(yǎnjìnghóu)
Czech: nártoun
Danish: spøgelsesabe
Dutch: spookdiertjes (nl)
Finnish: kummituseläin (fi)
French: tarsier (fr) m
German: Koboldmaki m
Hebrew: קופיף (he)
Hungarian: koboldmaki
Italian: tarsio
Japanese: メガネザル ‎(megane-zaru), 眼鏡猿
Korean: 안경원숭이 ‎(angyeong-wonsung-i)

Lithuanian: ilgakulnis m
Malay: kera hantu
Navajo: mágí binááʼtsohígíí
Norman: tarsyi
Norwegian: spøkelsesaper
Occitan: tarsièr
Polish: wyrakowate
Portuguese: társio (pt) m
Russian: долгопя́т (ru) m ‎(dolgopját)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: аветњаци, тарзијери

Roman: avetnjaci, tarzijeri
Spanish: tarsero m, tarsio m
Swedish: spökdjur, vristdjur
Tagalog: malmag, mamag
Waray-Waray: magô

See also

Tarsius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

artsier, tarries

Latin

Noun

tarsier

(New Latin) type species name of tarsier

Derived terms

Tarsius tarsier