giraffe

Etymology
, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  A ruminant, of the genus, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.
 * 2) A giraffe unicycle.
 * 3)   A laugh.
 * 4)  A very tall individual.
 * 1)  A very tall individual.
 * 1)  A very tall individual.
 * 1)  A very tall individual.

Translations

 * Afar: gari
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቀጭኔ
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: chirafa
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܙܪܢܦܐ, ܓܡܠ ܢܡܪܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: জিৰাফ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: жыра́фа
 * Bengali: জরৈফ
 * Bongo: kïlïrü
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Melanau: jirapah
 * Cherokee: ᏗᎦᎵᏍᏚᎩᏍᎩ
 * Cheyenne: tsėhe'ėsenotováhe
 * Chichewa: nyamalikiti, nswala
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 長頸鹿
 * Hakka: 長頸鹿
 * Hokkien:, 長頭鹿仔, 麒麟鹿
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲁⲛⲑⲉⲣⲟⲥ
 * Cornish: jiraff
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Daur: чилин
 * Dhivehi: ޒަރާފާ
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: дуебабри
 * Esperanto: ĝirafo
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: giraffur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, chameaupard
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჟირაფი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καμηλοπάρδαλις
 * Guerrero Amuzgo: kió' xtyo' tkò
 * Gujarati: જિરાફ
 * Hadza: zzókwanako, háwayii
 * Haitian Creole: jiraf
 * Hawaiian: kamelopaki
 * Hebrew: גִ׳ירָף
 * Hindi: जिराफ़,, जराफ़, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Schiraff
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: sioráf
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: анаш
 * Kannada: ಜಿರಾಫೆ
 * Kazakh: жираф, керік
 * Khmer: ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ,
 * Khoekhoe: ǃnaib
 * Kikuyu: ndũiga, njirabu
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, ھێشترگا
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: жираф, акыра
 * Laalaa: njabala
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: žirafe
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Maasai: olmeut
 * Macedonian: жира́фа
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: kakīroa
 * Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭱𐭲𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭥𐭯𐭫𐭭𐭢
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠨᠠᠰᠢ
 * Navajo: tsinlátah ayáanii
 * Norman: girafe
 * Northern Sotho: thutlwa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sjiraff
 * Occitan:
 * Oromo: sattawwaa
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, , زرناپا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: giraffa
 * Russian:, , гира́ф
 * Samoan: serafa
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: жира̀фа
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: jirafa, zirafa
 * Sinhalese: ජිරාෆ්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: geri
 * Sotho: thuhlo
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠎꠤꠞꠣꠚ
 * Tagalog: hirapa
 * Tajik:, шутурпаланг
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ዝዖታ, ዘራፍ
 * Tongan: selafi
 * Tooro: entwiga
 * Tswana:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: жира́фа, жира́ф
 * Urdu: جراف,
 * Uyghur: زىراپە
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: jiráff
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa: indlulamthi
 * Yiddish: זשיראַף
 * Zhuang: loeghozraez
 * Zulu:

Etymology
Possibly via, from , from.