antelope

English

Antilope cervicapra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/

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.

Derived terms

• Antelope County
• royal antelope
• sable antelope

Related terms

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

Descendants

• → Irish: antalóp

Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

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

  Cantonese: 羚羊 (ling⁴ joeng⁴)

  Hakka: 羚羊 (lìn-yòng)

  Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)

  Min Nan: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)

• Czech: antilopa (cs) f
• Danish: antilope (da) c
• Dutch: antilope (nl) f
• Egyptian: (šsꜣw m) (bubal hartebeest),

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  (mꜣ m) (oryx)
• Esperanto: antilopo
• Estonian: antiloop
• Ewe: to
• Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
• French: antilope (fr) f
• Galician: antílope (gl) m
• Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)
• German: Antilope (de) f
• Greek: αντιλόπη (el) f (antilópi)

  Ancient Greek: βούβαλις f (boúbalis)

• Gujarati: કાળિયાર (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
• Interlingue:
• Irish: antalóp m
• Italian: antilope (it) f
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• Japanese: カモシカ (ja) (kamoshika), 羚羊 (ja) (れいよう reiyō), レイヨウ (ja) (reiyō)
• Kazakh: антилопа (antilopa), бөкен (böken)
• Korean: 영양 (ko) (yeong'yang) (羚羊 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: антилопа (antilopa), бөкөн (ky) (bökön)
• Latin: dorcas f
• Latvian: antilope f
• Lithuanian: antilopė (lt) f
• Macedonian: антилопа f (antilopa)
• Malay: antelop
• Maori: anaterope
• 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

  Roman: antìlopa (sh) f

• Slovak: antilopa f
• Slovene: antilopa (sl) f
• 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 (jaam-jù-rii), แอนทิโลป
• Turkish: ceylan (tr), antilop (tr)
• Turkmen: antilopa (tk)
• Ukrainian: антило́па (uk) f (antylópa)
• Uyghur: بۆكەن (böken)
• Uzbek: antilopa, antilop
• Vietnamese: linh dương
• Wolof: kooba gi
• Zulu: iwula
• Zuni: mawi

pronghorn — see pronghorn

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antalopus, 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
• Scots: antelope

References

• “antelō̆pe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.