antelope

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Contents

1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
  - 1.2.1 Translations
  - 1.2.2 See also

[edit] English

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Antelope

Antilope cervicapra

[edit] Etymology

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus, from Byzantine Greek anthólops.

[edit] Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by having hollow horns. Unlike deer antelope do not shed their horns.
(US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80
  
  "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.

[edit] Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

Afrikaans: bok
Arabic: ظبي (ar) (Zabiy) m.
Armenian: այծքաղ (hy) (ayçk’aġ)
Basque: antilope (eu)
Bosnian: antilopa (bs) m.
Bulgarian: антилопа (bg) f.
Catalan: antílop m.
Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏳᏍᏘ (awiyusti)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)
Croatian: antilopa (hr) f.
Czech: antilopa (cs) f.
Danish: antilope (da)
Dutch: antilope (nl)
Ewe: to
Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
French: antilope (fr) f.
German: Antilope (de) f.
Greek: αντιλόπη (el) (antilópi) f.
Hungarian: antilop (hu)

Irish: antalóp (ga) m.
Japanese: カモシカ (ja) (kamoshika), 羚羊 (ja) (れいよう reiyō), レイヨウ (ja) (reiyō)
Korean: 영양 (ko) (yeong-yang) (羚羊 (ko))
Latin: dorcas (la) f.
Lithuanian: antilopė f.
Navajo: jádí
Norwegian: antilope (no)
Polish: antylopa (pl) f.
Portuguese: antílope (pt) m.
Romanian: antilopă (ro) f.
Russian: антилопа (ru) (antilópa) f.
Slovene: antilopa (sl) f.
Spanish: antílope (es) m.
Swahili: pofu, kulungu, pala hala, paa (sw)
Swedish: antilop (sv) c.
Turkish: ceylan (tr), antilop (tr)
Wolof: kooba gi (wo)
Zulu: iwula (zu)

[edit] See also

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