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How do giraffes get their names?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 11/15/2022

The word "Giraffe" has an origin of late 16th cent.: from French girafe, Italian giraffa, or Spanish and Portuguese girafa, based on Arabic zarāfa. The animal was known in Europe in the medieval period, and isolated instances of names for it based on the Arabic are recorded in Middle English, when it was commonly called the camelopard.

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