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Medieval invention by Al-Jazari
The elephant clock was a model of water clock invented by the medieval Islamic engineer Ismail al-Jazari (1136–1206). Its design was detailed in his book
Elephant_clock
Muslim engineer and artist (1136–1206)
on how to construct them. One of his more famous inventions is the elephant clock. He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern day engineering
Ismail_al-Jazari
Instrument for measuring, keeping or indicating time
al-Din, made numerous clocks of all shapes and sizes. The most reputed clocks included the elephant, scribe, and castle clocks, some of which have been
Clock
Madrasa in Mardin, Turkey
they entered. On the north of the iwan there is the reproduction of an elephant clock designed by al-Jazari, a 12th-century Muslim engineer. "City map". Archived
Kasımiye_Medrese
Timepiece in which time is measured by the flow of liquid into or out of a vessel
Al-Jazari's 1206 treatise, he describes one of his water clocks, the elephant clock. The clock recorded the passage of temporal hours, which meant that
Water_clock
Shopping mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tunisia Court. The India Court features a working reproduction of an elephant clock. The mall is located next to the neighbourhood of The Gardens, and near
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English auctioneer, antiques expert and television presenter
the Antiques Road Trip when in 2012 he bought a chipped Staffordshire elephant clock for £8 which was sold for £2,700 at auction. This was surpassed in 2016
Charlie Ross (antiques expert)
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culture Elephants in Thailand Elephant riddle Elephant test Elephant clock Elephant Parade, sculpture exhibit Execution by elephant Elephants and mice
Cultural depictions of elephants
Cultural_depictions_of_elephants
British television series (2010–)
Charlie Ross when in the 2012 series, he bought a chipped Staffordshire elephant clock for £8 which sold for £2,700. This was also the largest profit made
Antiques_Road_Trip
Iran/U.S. – Gas laser (Helium-Neon) Al-Jazari (1136–1206), Iraq – elephant clock, humanoid robots Ibn Al-Jazzar (Algizar) (895–979), Tunisia – sexual
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Period of cultural flourishing from 786 to 1258
automation and construction methods, most notable among them being the Elephant clock. While late in the 16th century, the Ottoman-era Taqi ad-Din Muhammad
Islamic_Golden_Age
Extinct order of birds
Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to
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Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns
astronomical works, explains the different phases of the moon. The Elephant Clock was one of the most famous inventions of Al-Jazari. "Cubic equations
Islamic_world
Clock, art installation in New York City
Park visitors. The clock depicts a statue parade of six animals playing musical instruments—a bear on the tambourine, an elephant on the accordion, a
Delacorte_Clock
Place where elephants have died in legend
An elephants' graveyard (also called elephant graveyard, elephant's graveyard, or elephants' cemetery) is a place where, according to legend, old elephants
Elephants'_graveyard
Historic site
Stevenage Clock Tower is a Grade II listed structure in Town Square in the centre of Stevenage New Town. A panel on the tower records the visit of Elizabeth
Stevenage_Clock_Tower
Building in Fes, Morocco
the early 2000s. Clock of Ridwan al-Saati Elephant clock of al-Jazari Dar al-Muwaqqit Its mechanism can be compared to that of the Clock of Ridwan al-Saati
Dar_al-Magana
Museum in Le Locle, Switzerland
features several sundials and larger, sculptural clocks, including a replica of the Elephant clock of al-Jazari. At most times there is at least one
Watch_Museum_of_Le_Locle
2014 literary awards ceremony
Janice Law, The Prisoner of the Riviera Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari Jonathan Gregory, In Real Life Greg Herren, Baton Rouge
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Type of structure attached to a mosque
(especially the Umayyad Mosque) and Egypt up to the nineteenth century. Elephant clock of al-Jazari Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world Renaud, H. P.-J
Dar_al-Muwaqqit
Small paintings on paper
(From right to left) Al-Jazari elephant clock, water device and a page from a codex about zoology.
Arabic_miniature
Proposed southern extension of the London Underground
Bakerloo line in south-east London from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham. An extension southwards from Elephant & Castle was considered as early as 1913
Bakerloo_line_extension
Bells or finger cymbals used for rhythmic accompaniment
metal musical instruments, including large bells with clappers worn by elephants, smaller 3-9 inch bells worn on camels, horses, donkeys and cattle, 2-3
Zang_(bell)
American baseball mascot
Shibe had bought himself a "white elephant." In response, A's manager (and future owner) Connie Mack selected the elephant as the team symbol and mascot,
Charlie-O_(mascot)
Annual literary award for mystery novels with LGBT-themes
Satan Jon Michaelsen Pretty Boy Dead Sarah Black The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari Lesbian Mys. Katherine V. Forrest High Desert Winner Val
Lambda Literary Award for Mystery
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British historical documentary television series
designed by the Banū Mūsā brothers to pick things up from the seabed. The Elephant clock and Multiculturalism by the Kurdish engineer al-Jazari. The Alhambra
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Bill Corbett 2011-09-16September 16, 2011 1973 Boy of India: Rama and His Elephant Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett 2011-09-20September 20
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When their ears suddenly transform into those of a rat, a bunny, and an elephant, Tanya and her mother are forced to listen in ways they never have before
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1931 painting by Salvador Dalí
sometimes referred to by more descriptive titles, such as "The Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches". The well-known surrealist
The_Persistence_of_Memory
There Burr. 3463 Li'l Lisa Jane Jaudas' Society Orchestra 1918 3464 The Elephant and the Fly Moor & Kohon 3465 On The Banks Of The Brandywine W. Van Brunt
List of Edison Blue Amberol Records: Popular Series
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American filmmaker (born 1975)
Vanderbilt contributed as producer for several films, including The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), Ready or Not (2019) and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
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American global watch manufacturing company
watch brand and manufacturing company founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 2008, the company was acquired by
Timex_Group_USA
Extinct species of mammoth
800,000 years ago in Siberia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) lived alongside the woolly mammoth
Woolly_mammoth
Self-operating machine
doll Automata in the Waddesdon Manor collection Video of elephant automaton on YouTube Video of Catherine the Great's 'The Peacock Clock' on YouTube
Automaton
speaking to Lori, Lisa decides to have a circus party. Lisa tries to rent an elephant from Mr. Haney. Oliver says no and tells her to have a plain party. Meanwhile
List_of_Green_Acres_episodes
10th episode of the 4th season of The Bear
arrives and tearfully embraces Carmy upon learning the news while Cicero's clock eventually reaches zero. Christopher Storer wrote the teleplay for "Goodbye
Goodbye_(The_Bear)
Dan, she left the dishes, went for a walk in the park and then fed the elephants at the zoo. Alex tells Dan what Jeff did. Just then, Mrs. Sutton (Aline
List of The Donna Reed Show episodes
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2008 film by Kompin Kemgumnird
aka Jumbo, is a little elephant who tries to find his father, and the journey of finding his father made him a war elephant. The film is a Hindi remake
Jumbo_(2008_film)
British actress
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Nina 2023 The Magician's Elephant Narrator / The Fortune Teller (voice) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant
Natasia_Demetriou
Type of small omnivorous rodent
in animals with advanced cognition, such as humans, apes, and elephants. The vole clock is a method of dating archaeological strata using vole teeth.
Vole
American actress and singer (born 1986)
and executive-produced an unreleased short comedy film called A Fuchsia Elephant. The plot revolves around Agron's character, Charlotte Hill, who recreates
Dianna_Agron
Language Elephant trumpeting Lion/tiger roaring Monkey chatting Afrikaans trompetter, ronk brul boggom, babbel, a-a-a Albanian tyy, trryy arr, grr i-u-a-a
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
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1987 British TV series or programme
written by Michael Cole with music by Mike Batt.[citation needed] Edward Elephant Bonnie Bunny Max Mouse Clive Crocodile Lionel Lion Hannah Hippopotamus
Edward_and_Friends
is a Hindu, he will display an idol of Ganesh in his store. Travels by elephant or Hindustan Ambassador. Om Puri as George Khan in East Is East Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
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Triumphal arch in Sicily, Italy
center of the arch is now a clock, surrounded by allegorical symbols, including an eagle and a statue recalling the black elephant (u Liotru), symbol of Catania
Porta_Garibaldi,_Catania
America (2002) Home Room (2002) Liberty Stands Still (2002) "Jimmy" (2002) Elephant (2003) Zero Day (2003) American Yearbook (2004) "Massacre at Columbine
List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
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Ancient Egyptian religious festivities
them. His sweat fell there. The land of the two caves of the City of the Elephant (Elephantine), is […]. The land of Oxyrhinque (Ouabouab), the land of the
Mysteries_of_Osiris
Extinct family of ground sloths
South America. The group includes the largest known ground sloths, the elephant sized Megatherium (given its name 'great beast' by Georges Cuvier) and
Megatheriidae
a compromise; Miona refuses to budge on wedding locations. 109 13 "The Elephant in the Womb" July 8, 2022 (2022-07-08) Emily takes a pregnancy test; Patrick
List of 90 Day Fiancé episodes
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Uduvil Murugamoorthi Vidyalayam Chunnakam ta M 1-11 2 285 ✓ Pro KIL KIL KAN Elephant Pass T.M.S. Tharumapuram, Paranthan ta M 1-11 2 0 ✗ Pro KIL KIL KAN Kaddaikadu
List of schools in Northern Province, Sri Lanka
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Infraclass of mammals in the clade Eutheria
Macroscelidea (elephant shrews) Grandorder Paenungulata Order Hyracoidea (hyraxes) Mirorder Tethytheria Order Proboscidea (elephants) Order Sirenia (dugongs
Placentalia
1980 53rd 1 1 The Dollar Bottom 1981 53rd 1 1 The Fly 1980 53rd 1 1 The Elephant Man 1980 53rd 0 8 Private Benjamin 1980 53rd 0 3 The Stunt Man 1980 53rd
List of Academy Award–nominated films
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Building in Rajasthan, India
gallery. The clock tower is a structure to the south of the Sabha Niwas. It is a sign of European influence in the Rajput court as the clock was installed
City_Palace,_Jaipur
New Zealand actor (born 1997)
(2020). Apa released his debut solo album in 2021, the indie folk-rock album Clocks. Apa was born on 17 June 1997 at Waitakere Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand
KJ_Apa
Short film series
does not appear. 89 Mickey's Elephant David Hand October 10, 1936 Mickey builds a nice new house for Bobo the Elephant, his new pet. Pluto becomes jealous
Mickey_Mouse_(film_series)
Palace in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
The whole building is eight-angled and has a tower in the middle. The clock on it was fixed in 1877. At separate distances there are small towers. On
New_Palace,_Kolhapur
Japanese anime television series
call themselves Gemini Storm, but it's like pitting an ant against an elephant. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is in danger from the very same threat,
Inazuma_Eleven_(TV_series)
City in Sri Lanka
attraction offering a scenic view of the city and the famous elephant rock. The Kurunegala clock tower was built in 1922 as a tribute to the officers, who
Kurunegala
Valuable jewelled egg from Russia
dating of the eggs has evolved. An earlier chronology dated the Blue Serpent Clock Egg to 1887 and identified the 1895 egg as the Twelve Monograms Egg. The
Fabergé_egg
American voice actor (born 1962)
of Frida Suarez" Higglytown Heroes Auctioneer Hero Episode: "Big Pink Elephant Sale/Higglies on Horseback" Saul of the Mole Men Clancy Burrows 2007–2008
Jeff_Bennett
American animated interactive children's television series
originally seen in the original series. Baby Elephant (vocal effects provided by Dee Bradley Baker) A baby elephant that first appears as a Mouseketool. It
Mickey_Mouse_Clubhouse+
roping Steer roping Steer riding Steer wrestling Elephants Elephant football Elephant polo Elephant racing Other ungulates Camel racing Robot jockey Camel
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2005 American film
continued with Elephant (2003). The dialogue and narration in all three films are minimal, and scenes do not proceed linearly. As in Elephant, scenes are
Last_Days_(2005_film)
Entertainers at the festival in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, listed by year
Saturday Sunday DJ Shadow Example The Coral I Am Kloot Darwin Deez Cage the Elephant Miles Kane Mona Stonefield Cocoon Glasvegas Battles Noah and the Whale
Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups
Jane tells Drysdale that the circus wants to know if he'll take a baby elephant. Drysdale learns that Granny wants to butcher the hippo. Elly is in the
List of The Beverly Hillbillies episodes
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Period of darkness
and adjustments to circadian rhythms governed by an internal biological clock. These circadian rhythms, regulated by exposure to light and darkness, affect
Night
"top forward" cake (a cake standing on its side) with a clock face inspired by an assigned clock design. Julian used his Gift of Immunity from episode 3
List of Spring Baking Championship episodes
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Hamilton); President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany and criticised the German government and its environment ministry
List of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering episodes
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Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Inhabited Houses. The whole act. 37 Geo. 3. c. 108 Duties on Clocks and Watches Act 1797 Duties on Clocks and Watches The whole act. 37 Geo. 3. c. 110 Customs
Statute_Law_Revision_Act_1861
Art Museum in Hyderabad, Telangana, India
carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks, and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, India, Persia, Egypt, Europe
Salar_Jung_Museum
Game piece for playing chess
most notable changes was the Vizir (or Firz) becoming the Queen, and the Elephant becoming the Bishop in European versions of chess. The movement patterns
Chess_piece
(featuring Swizz Beatz) {co-produced with Neo Da Matrix} 19. "Check the Clock" {Bonus Track} 04. "Yung Wun Anthem" {co-produced with Eric McCain} 12.
Swizz Beatz production discography
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"Supersized: Elephant Swords" Signature blade (using 5160 steel from two 250-lb coil springs, forged into a san mai billet) Pair of elephant fighting swords
List of Forged in Fire episodes
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Documentary TV series and book by James Burke
Church's need for alarm clocks (the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock). The clock mainspring gave way to the pendulum clock, but the latter could
Connections (British TV series)
Connections_(British_TV_series)
Australian game quiz show
25 October 2025 (2025-10-25) Contestants: Zak - Australian politics expert Isla - Elephants expert Angus - Toy Story expert Audrey - Stray Kids expert Tom's round:
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Guilloteau Annabelle Gervais Amaury Allaire July 28, 2022 (2022-07-28) 7d "Elephant Nanny" Renaud Gagnon Richard Méril July 28, 2022 (2022-07-28) Jack is in
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High-rise building in Warsaw, Poland
1961; it was also briefly the tallest clock tower in the world, from 2000 until the 2002 installation of a clock mechanism on the NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building
Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
Time" March 29, 2005 (2005-03-29) 13.18 5.5/14 79 6 "Houston, We Have an Elephant!" April 5, 2005 (2005-04-05) 12.28 5.1/13 80 7 "They Saved the Eyeball"
List of The Amazing Race (American TV series) episodes (seasons 1–20)
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Moldavian/Romanian soldier and politician (1821–1901)
taking in his care "all the estates of Roman County", to emerge as the "elephant" of Moldavian agriculture. Sturdza also began holding land to his own name:
Grigore_Sturdza
Italian record label
pelotero/Semplice canzone ep A 3039 1957 Tullio Mobiglia e Flo Sandon's Rock around the clock/Rock a beatin' boogie/I want you to be my baby/Burn that candle ep A 3042
Durium_Records
Organ central to the nervous system
play similar roles in the mouse biological clock—and therefore almost certainly in the human biological clock as well. Studies done on Drosophila, also
Brain
British archaeologist (1904–1978)
Pricking of My Thumbs Hallowe'en Party Passenger to Frankfurt Nemesis Elephants Can Remember Postern of Fate Curtain Sleeping Murder As Mary Westmacott
Max_Mallowan
Boy of a Frontier Fort c-11m March 3, 1958 Boy of India: Rama and His Elephant Paul R. Wendt c-12m January 31, 1956 Boy of Japan: Ito and His Kite Frank
List_of_Coronet_Films_films
1970 studio album by Syd Barrett
recorded for Barrett ("Gigolo Aunt", "Baby Lemonade" and "Effervescing Elephant"), and a one-off ("Two of a Kind", which was written by Richard Wright)
Barrett_(album)
American actor (1916–1986)
brief role as a belligerent, unsympathetic drunk in the wartime romance The Clock (1945). Arguably his most dynamic performance was a small role in The Hucksters
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Goodnight Sweetheart One 18 November 1993 28 June 1999 Gordon Buchanan: Elephant Family & Me Two 26 December 2016 27 December 2016 Gordon Ramsay's Bank
List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC
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The future of American politics is the subtext of Albright's book. "The elephant rampaging through these pages is, of course, Donald Trump," she writes
Donald_Trump_and_fascism
Widely used melody
Abner Silver and Al Hoffman, recorded by Rusty Draper (1953) "Nellie the Elephant" by Ralph Butler (1956) "Teenager's Mother (Are You Right?)" by Bill Haley
Arabian_riff
Badou to Monkey camp, but finds that it's hard to do the activities as an elephant. "Bad Bounce": Badou invites Tersh to play on with him on the trampoline
List of Babar and the Adventures of Badou episodes
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Traditional Animation A Dream Walking United States Traditional Animation An Elephant Never Forgets United States Traditional Animation The Flying Mouse United
List of animated short films of the 1930s
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Lovecraft, "The Horror in the Museum" (emphasis added) Chaugnar Faugn (The Elephant God, The Horror from the Hills) was created by Frank Belknap Long and first
List_of_Great_Old_Ones
ring their bells. 11 11 "The Elephant Train" September 15, 2008 (2008-09-15) 111 The Animal Mechanicals help the Elephant Train get to the other side of
List of Animal Mechanicals episodes
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of just one. For transportation and food collection, he has a pet Jack Elephant (CLVL 85), which is large and strong enough to cut down an entire ear of
List_of_Toriko_characters
R. V. (2009). "The International Ban on Ivory Sales and its Effects on Elephant Poaching in Africa". British Journal of Criminology. 49 (4): 451. doi:10
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British actor (born 1967)
the Blind Pool The Lives of the Saints Father Daniel 2008 Intercom Simon short Wanted The Repairman 2010 Do Elephants Pray? Marrlen 2011 Wild Bill Adam
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History Is Made at Night produced by Walter Wanger Productions April 5, 1937 Elephant Boy produced by London Films Productions April 18, 1937 A Night of Terror
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the Elephant" 1 July 1998 (1998-07-01) The Teletubbies run indoors and then run out again to watch Andy Brown and Georgina wash a female elephant called
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such as Irwin injured while riding a bike, Pud'n getting crushed by an elephant and Mandy's severed head on the table with a pink sheet over it. Grim zaps
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Original release date 1 1 "The Elephant Thieves" Otto Lang Robert Lewin January 11, 1966 (1966-01-11) A baby elephant heads for Tracy's study center after
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BC) Euripides Electra (1962) Michael Cacoyannis The Elephant Man (1977) Bernard Pomerance The Elephant Man (1982) Jack Hofsiss Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (1958)
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ELEPHANT CLOCK
ELEPHANT CLOCK
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Scottish
Great strength.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Elephant
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Elephant
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Elephant King
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Elephant
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Gajendra | கஜேநà¯à®¤à¯à®°
Elephant king
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English, Scottish, French, and German
English, Scottish, French, and German : from Middle English, Old French, Middle High German olifant ‘elephant’ (medieval Latin olifantus, from classical Latin elephantus, Greek elephas, genitive elephantos). The circumstances in which this word was applied as a surname are not clear. It may have been a nickname for a large, lumbering individual, or a metonymic occupational name for a worker in ivory, or a habitational name from a house distinguished by the sign of an elephant.
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Elephant faced
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Elephant; Giant
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Elephant
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Elephant
ELEPHANT CLOCK
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Courageous
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Queen
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Master of the right way, Master of the right path, Principle
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained; possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Boy/Male
British, French, Indian
Honest
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Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Oriya, Sanskrit, Telugu
Son of Agni
Boy/Male
Arabic
Wise; Healer; Physician; Ruler; Sovereign
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Hindu
Good worker
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Lord Ganesh; Moon
Male
English
Great Ambition
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n.
The proboscis of an elephant.
n.
Elephantiasis.
n.
The keeper and driver of an elephant.
a.
Resembling an elephant in form or appearance.
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Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
a.
Shining; elegant; spruce.
a.
Too elegant.
n.
An elephant having large tusks.
n.
Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
n.
An elephant.
a.
Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
n.
One who has the power of choosing; an elector.
n.
Fair or elegant penmanship.
n.
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
a.
Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
n.
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
a.
Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
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Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.
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Not vulgar; refined; elegant.