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Blackbucks (Antilope cervicapra)
From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/
antelope (plural **antelope or antelopes)
- Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
Hypernyms: bovid < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
Coordinate terms: wild goat, goat antelope, caprid, deer, bovine - (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound. - 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:
"It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
- (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
mammal of the family Bovidae
Azerbaijani: antilop
Bangi: mboloko
Belarusian: антыло́па f (antylópa)
Burmese: ဒရယ်ငယ် (da.rai-ngai)
Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏳᏍᏘ (awiyusti)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羚羊 (ling4 joeng4)
Hakka: 羚羊 (lìn-yòng)
Hokkien: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)
Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)Esperanto: antilopo
Estonian: antiloop
Ewe: to
Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
Friulian: antilope f
Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)
Greek: αντιλόπη (el) f (antilópi)
Ancient Greek: δορκάς f (dorkás), βούβαλις f (boúbalis)Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: 'm'ul
Hebrew: אַנְטִילוֹפָּה (he) f (antilópa)
Hindi: मृग (hi) m (mŕg), हिरन (hi) m (hiran), कुरंग (hi) ? (kuraṅg)
Ibibio: edop
Irish: antalóp m
Kazakh: бөкен (böken)
Latvian: antilope f
Lingala: mboloko
Macedonian: антилопа f (antilopa)
Malay: antelop
Manx: antelope m
Māori: anaterope
Marathi: काळवीट n (kāḷvīṭ)
Navajo: jádí
Sahaptin: chatwill f
Shor: чеерен
Slovak: antilopa f
Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎎𐎗 (zmr)
Unami: weòptias
Uyghur: بۆكەن (böken)
Vietnamese: linh dương (vi) (羚羊)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: antelop m
Wolof: kooba gi
Zulu: iwula
Zuni: mawi
From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).
antelope (plural antelopes)
- English: antelope
- Scots: antelope
- “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.
