antelope

See also: Antelope

English

Blackbucks (Antilope cervicapra)

Etymology

From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   Hypernyms: bovid < ungulate < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: wild goat, goat antelope, caprid, deer, bovine

2. (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.

3. (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.

Derived terms

• antelabbit
• antelope brush
• antelope bush
• Antelope County
• antelope jackrabbit
• antelopelike
• Antelope Mesa
• antelope squirrel
• blue antelope
• bush antelope
• goat antelope
• goat-antelope
• harnessed antelope
• jackalope
• mountain antelope
• roan antelope
• royal antelope
• sable antelope
• saiga antelope
• screwhorn antelope
• Speke's antelope
• springer antelope
• Tibetan antelope
• white antelope
• zebra antelope

Descendants

• → Irish: antalóp
• → Manx: antelope

Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

• Afrikaans: bok (af), wildsbok (af)
• Albanian: antilopë (sq) f
• Arabic: ظَبْي (ar) m (ẓaby)
• Armenian: այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʻaġ)
• Asturian: antílope (ast)
• Azerbaijani: antilop
• Bangi: mboloko
• Basque: antilope (eu)
• Belarusian: антыло́па f (antylópa)
• Bulgarian: антило́па (bg) f (antilópa)
• Burmese: ဒရယ်ငယ် (da.rai-ngai)
• Catalan: antílop (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏳᏍᏘ (awiyusti)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 羚羊 (ling⁴ joeng⁴)

  Hakka: 羚羊 (lìn-yòng)

  Hokkien: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)

  Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)

• Czech: antilopa (cs) f
• Danish: antilope (da) c
• Dutch: antilope (nl) f
• Egyptian: (šsꜣw m) (bubal hartebeest), (mꜣ m) (oryx)
• Esperanto: antilopo
• Estonian: antiloop
• Ewe: to
• Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
• French: antilope (fr) f
• Friulian: antilope f
• Galician: antílope (gl) m
• Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)
• German: Antilope (de) f
• Greek: αντιλόπη (el) f (antilópi)

  Ancient Greek: δορκάς f (dorkás), βούβαλις f (boúbalis)

• Gujarati: કાળિયાર m (kāḷiyār), કૃષ્ણમૃગ ? (kŕṣṇamŕg)
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: 'm'ul
• Hebrew: אַנְטִילוֹפָּה (he) f (antilópa)
• Hindi: मृग (hi) m (mŕg), हिरन (hi) m (hiran), कुरंग (hi) ? (kuraṅg)
• Hungarian: antilop (hu)
• Ibibio: edop
• Icelandic: antilópa (is) f
• Irish: antalóp m
• Italian: antilope (it) f
• Japanese: 羚羊 (ja) (レイヨウ, reiyō)
• Kazakh: бөкен (böken)
• Korean: 영양(羚羊) (ko) (yeong'yang)
• Kyrgyz: антилопа (antilopa), бөкөн (ky) (bökön)
• Latin: dorcas f, oryx m
• Latvian: antilope f
• Lingala: mboloko
• Lithuanian: antilopė (lt) f
• Macedonian: антилопа f (antilopa)
• Malay: antelop
• Manx: antelope m
• Māori: anaterope
• Marathi: काळवीट n (kāḷvīṭ)
• Mongolian: гөрөөс (mn) (göröös), зээр (mn) (zeer)
• Navajo: jádí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antilope (no) m

  Nynorsk: antilope f

• Persian: آنتلوپ (ântelop), تیبا (fa) (tibâ)
• Polish: antylopa (pl) f
• Portuguese: antílope (pt) m
• Romanian: antilopă (ro) f
• Russian: антило́па (ru) f (antilópa)
• Sahaptin: chatwill f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антѝлопа f

  Latin: antìlopa (sh) f

• Shor: чеерен
• Slovak: antilopa f
• Slovene: antilopa (sl) f
• Southern Altai: јеерен (ǰeeren)
• Spanish: antílope (es) m
• Swahili: pofu (sw), kulungu (sw), pala hala, paa (sw)
• Swedish: antilop (sv) c
• Tagalog: antilope, bubalo
• Tajik: антилопа (antilopa), ғизол (ġizol)
• Thai: จามจุรี (th) (jaam-jù-rii), แอนทิโลป
• Turkish: ceylan (tr), antilop (tr)
• Turkmen: antilopa (tk)
• Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎎𐎗 (zmr)
• Ukrainian: антило́па (uk) f (antylópa)
• Unami: weòptias
• Uyghur: بۆكەن (böken)
• Uzbek: antilopa, antilop
• Vietnamese: linh dương (vi) (羚羊)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: antelop m
• Wolof: kooba gi
• Zazaki: antilop (diq), kosbes c
• Zulu: iwula
• Zuni: mawi

pronghorn — see pronghorn

See also

• bontebok
• dik-dik
• eland
• gazelle
• gemsbock
• hartebeest
• herd
• klipspringer
• kudu
• oryx
• roan
• springbok
• topi
• waterbuck
• wildebeest

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Middle English

Alternative forms

• antlop, anteloppe, antyloppe, antlope, antilope, antelop

Etymology

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈantəlɔːp/, /ˈantəlɔp/

Noun

antelope (plural antelopes)

1. antelope
2. (heraldry) heraldic antelope

Descendants

• English: antelope
  • → Irish: antalóp
  • → Manx: antelope
• Scots: antelope

References

• “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2018.