Words that come from Persian “زرنا”

54 words across 35 languages descend from Persian زرنا — including giraffe, giraffelike, giraffish, giraffe, girafe, زَرَافَة, giraffoid, giraffa.

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English (7)

Indonesian (3)

Classical Syriac (3)

French (2)

Arabic (2)

Slovak (2)

Translingual (2)

Hungarian (2)

Malay (2)

Persian (2)

Spanish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Italian (1)

Turkish (1)

Latin (1)

Japanese (1)

Danish (1)

Dutch (1)

Korean (1)

Polish (1)

Middle Armenian (1)

Armenian (1)

Georgian (1)

Telugu (1)

Russian (1)

Turkmen (1)

Norman (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

German (1)

Portuguese (1)

Romanian (1)

Assamese (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Javanese (1)