Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

irbis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ir-bis
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian и́рбис (írbis).

Questions

What does irbis mean?: snow leopard (large feline mammal, Panthera uncia, native to mountain ranges of central Asia)
Where does irbis come from?: Borrowed from Russian и́рбис (írbis).

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