Home › Words › S › sifakasifaka/sɪˈfɑːkə/sifaka means any of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sifaka ranks #16,730 of 42,747 for Qualifying.sifaka is pronounced /sɪˈfɑːkə/.EtymologyBorrowed from Malagasy sifaka.nounAny of several endangered medium-sized lemurs that comprise genus Propithecus.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.euplerid 56% match — Any member of the family Eupleridae, Malagasy carnivorans, cat-like mammals of Madagascar. vs sifaka →babakoto 55% match — A kind of large lemur, the indri (Indri indri). vs sifaka →cheirogaleid 54% match — Any lemur in the family Cheirogaleidae. vs sifaka →macaco 53% match — A macaque, or similar monkey. vs sifaka →daubentoniid 52% match — Any lemur in the family Daubentoniidae, of which the only living species is the aye-aye. vs sifaka →guevi 52% match — Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa. vs sifaka →saimiri 51% match — any member of Saimiri, a taxonomic genus of South American arboreal monkeys, a squirrel monkey vs sifaka →archaeolemurid 51% match — Any of the extinct lemurs in the family Archaeolemuridae. vs sifaka →