irbis

Borrowed from Russian и́рбис (írbis).

• enPR: ĭr′bĭs
• Rhymes: -ɪɹbɪs
• Hyphenation: ir‧bis

irbis (plural not attested)

1. (uncommon) snow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)
   • 1893, John Martin Crawford, U.S. Consul General to Russia, transl., The Industries of Russia, volumes 5: Siberia and the Great Siberian Railway, St Petersburg, Chapter VI. The Kirghiz Steppe Region, page 83 ^GB:

     The tiger and the irbis (felis irbis) reach the northern limit of their distribution in the reeds of Balkhash, but occasionally stray northward into the neighbourhood of the Alatau.

Borrowed from Russian и́рбис (írbis).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪrbɪs]

irbis m anim

1. snow leopard (large feline mammal, Uncia uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)

Internationalism; compare English irbis, French irbis, Russian и́рбис (írbis), ultimately from Classical Mongolian ᠢᠷᠪᠢᠰ (irbis), from Proto-Mongolic *irbis, from Proto-Common Turkic *irbiš.

• IPA^(key): /ˈir.bis/

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• Rhymes: -irbis
• Syllabification: ir‧bis

irbis m animal

1. snow leopard, irbis (Panthera uncia)

   Synonyms: irbis śnieżny, pantera śnieżna

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

Borrowed from German Irbis.

irbis m (plural irbiși)

1. snow leopard (Panthera uncia)

irbis m (plural irbis)

1. snow leopard

• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “irbis”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]