blesbok

English

Noun

blesbok (plural blesboks)

1. Alternative form of blesbuck
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

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Noun

blesbok (plural blesbokke)

1. blesbuck

Descendants

• → English: blesbuck
• → Italian: blesbok

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of bles +‎ bok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛs.bɔk/

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• Hyphenation: bles‧bok

Noun

blesbok m (plural blesbokken, diminutive blesbokje n)

1. blesbuck, Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi [from early 19th c.]

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans blesbok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛ.zbok/
• Rhymes: -ɛzbok
• Hyphenation: blè‧sbok

Noun

blesbok m (invariable)

1. blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi)

Further reading

• blesbok in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana