antelope

English

Wikipedia

Antilope cervicapra

Etymology

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

Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)

1. Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
2. (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.

Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

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

  Mandarin: 羚羊 (cmn) (língyáng)

• 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
• Gujarati: કાળિયાર (gu) (kaaliyaar), કૃષ્ણમૃગ (gu) (krishnamrig)
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: 'm'ul
• 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
• Malay: antelop (ms)
• Navajo: jádí
• Norwegian: antilope (no)
• Polish: antylopa (pl) f
• Portuguese: antílope (pt) m
• Romanian: antilopă (ro) f
• Russian: антилопа (ru) (antilópa) f
• Sahaptin: chatwill f
• Serbo-Croatian: antilopa (sh)
• 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)
• Zuni: mawi

pronghorn — see pronghorn

See also

• bontebok
• dik-dik
• eland
• gazelle
• hartebeest
• klipspringer
• kudu
• oryx
• roan
• royal antelope
• sable antelope
• springbok
• topi
• waterbuck
• wildebeest
• Appendix: Animals
• herd
• Appendix:English collective nouns