Tarzan

See also: tarzan and Tarzán

English

Etymology

Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.

Means "white skin" in the apes' fictional language; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tarzan

  1. (fiction) A heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Tarzan (plural Tarzans)

  1. (by extension) A strong wild man.
    • 2011, John Creasey, The Flood:
      There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.

Descendants
  • Dutch: Tarzan
  • Swedish: Tarzan

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Proper noun

Tarzan

  1. Tarzan

Derived terms
  • Tarzanbocht

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

Tarzan m (proper noun, strong, genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtar.zan/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -arzan
  • Syllabification: Tar‧zan
  • Homophone: tarzan

Proper noun

Tarzan m pers

  1. Tarzan (heroic fictional character, raised in the jungle by apes)

Declension
Declension of Tarzan
singular
nominative Tarzan
genitive Tarzana
dative Tarzanowi
accusative Tarzana
instrumental Tarzanem
locative Tarzanie
vocative Tarzanie

Derived terms
noun

Further reading
  • Tarzan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Tarzan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /¹taʂan/

Proper noun

Tarzan c (genitive Tarzans)

  1. Tarzan
    dra en Tarzan
    jerk off ("pull a Tarzan") (idiomatic)

See also
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