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Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), borrowed from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /səˈfɑːɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹi

safari (plural safaris)

1. A trip into any undeveloped area to see, photograph or to hunt wild animals in their own environment.
   We're going on a safari in Kenya.
2. A caravan going on a safari.
3. (by extension) Any trip for the purpose of discovering something new or acquiring prizes or trophies.
   • 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing:
     An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.
   • 2017, Serena, “Safari”:
     Come on, boy, move that body/ 'Cause tonight I'm naughty, naughty/ Dance with me like it's my party/ We go wild, we're in safari

• human safari

• safari ant

• safariboat

• safarier

• safarigoer

• safari-goer

• safari jacket

• safarilike

• safari man

• safari park

• safarist

• safari suit

• safari supper

• safari zoo

• sniffari

• surfari

• whale safari

• zoofari

• → Norwegian Bokmål: safari

a trip into any undeveloped area

• Arabic: سَفَارِي m (safārī)
• Armenian: սաֆարի (hy) (safari)
• Belarusian: сафа́ры n (safáry)
• Bulgarian: сафа́ри (bg) n (safári)
• Catalan: safari (ca) m
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: (hunting expedition) 狩獵遠征 / 狩猎远征 (shòuliè yuǎnzhēng), (photographic expedition) 攝影遠征 / 摄影远征 (shèyǐng yuǎnzhēng)
• Dutch: safari (nl)
• Esperanto: safario
• Finnish: safari (fi)
• French: safari (fr) m
• Georgian: საფარი (sapari)
• German: Safari (de) f
• Greek: σαφάρι (el) n (safári)
• Hebrew: ספארי m (safári)
• Hindi: सफ़ारी m (safārī)
• Hungarian: szafari (hu)
• Indonesian: safari (id)
• Interlingua: safari
• Italian: safari (it) m
• Japanese: サファリ (ja) (safari)
• Korean: 사파리 (ko) (sapari)
• Macedonian: сафари n (safari)
• Malay: safari
• Malayalam: സഫാരി (saphāri)
• Māori: whakangaunga (if the purpose is hunting)
• Marathi: सफारी f (saphārī)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: safari m
• Persian: سفاری (fa) (safâri), سافاری (sâfâri)
• Polish: safari (pl) n
• Portuguese: safári (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸਫਾਰੀ (saphārī)
• Russian: сафа́ри (ru) n (safári)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: сафа̑ри m
  Latin: safȃri (sh) m
• Spanish: safari (es) m
• Swahili: safari (sw)
• Swedish: safari (sv) c
• Thai: ซาฟารี
• Turkish: safari (tr)
• Ukrainian: сафа́рі n (safári)
• Urdu: سفاری m (safārī)
• Welsh: saffari m

safari (third-person singular simple present safaris, present participle safariing, simple past and past participle safaried)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a safari.

• Farias

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈfa.ɾi]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [saˈfa.ɾi]

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• “safari”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /saːˈfaː.ri/
• Hyphenation: sa‧fa‧ri

safari m (plural safari's, diminutive safarietje n)

1. safari

• safaribus
• safaripark
• → Indonesian: safari

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /ˈsɑfɑri/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝fɑ̝ri]
• Rhymes: -ɑfɑri
• Syllabification(key): sa‧fa‧ri
• Hyphenation(key): sa‧fa‧ri

safari

1. safari

• kelkkasafari

• moottorikelkkasafari

• safariauto

• safarijakku

• safarimatka

• safariopas

• safaripuisto

• safaripuku

• safaripusero

• safarituoli

• valokuvaussafari

• “safari”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• fraasi

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /sa.fa.ʁi/

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• → Romanian: safari
• →? Turkish: safari
• “safari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Dutch safari (“_safari_”), from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar). Doublet of safar.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /saˈfari/ [saˈfa.ri]
• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari (plural **safari-safari)

1. safari

• bersafari

• menyafarikan

• “safari”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari m (invariable)

1. safari

• sfarai

safari

1. Rōmaji transcription of サファリ

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /sɑfɑːrɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪ

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safarier, definite plural safariene)

1. a safari

• hvalsafari
• “safari” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari m (definite singular safarien, indefinite plural safariar, definite plural safariane)

1. a safari

• “safari” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Swahili safari, borrowed from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /saˈfa.ri/
• Rhymes: -ari
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari n (indeclinable)

1. safari (trip into any undeveloped area)

• “safari”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French safari.

safari n (uncountable)

1. safari

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• IPA(key): /saˈfaɾi/ [saˈfa.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -aɾi
• Syllabification: sa‧fa‧ri

safari m (plural safaris)

1. safari

• “safari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

• (Unguja standard) IPA(key): /sɑˈfɑ.ɾi/

safari class IX (plural **safari class X)

1. journey, trip
2. a time or instance

• -safiri
• → Arabic: سَفَارِي (safārī)
• → Catalan: safari
• → English: safari
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: safari
• → Finnish: safari
• → French: safari
  • → Romanian: safari
  • →? Turkish: safari
• → German: Safari
• → Hungarian: szafari
• → Italian: safari
• → Japanese: サファリ
• → Portuguese: safári
• → Russian: сафа́ри (safári)
• → Spanish: safari
• → Swedish: safari

Borrowed from Swahili safari (“journey”), from Arabic سَفَر (safar).

safari c

1. safari

• “safari”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “safari”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “safari”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Borrowed from French safari or from English safari. Doublet of sefer.

• IPA(key): /saˈfa.ɾi/
• Hyphenation: sa‧fa‧ri

safari (definite accusative safariyi, plural safariler)

1. safari

• “safari”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “safari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “safari”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “safari”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3929