zilonis

Etymology
Borrowed from (itself a borrowing from Turkic), made into a 2nd-declension masculine noun (ending -is); the initial z apparently results from the influence of. This word is first mentioned (as a 1st-declension masculine noun, ) in 19th-century dictionaries. It replaced previous borrowings like, , still in use well into the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1) elephant fam.