antler

See also: Antler

English

Etymology

From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) +‎ oillier (oil (“eye”) +‎ -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈænt.lɚ/, /ˈænʔ.lɚ/, /ˈænʔ.ɫɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈænt.lə/

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Noun

antler (plural antlers)

1. A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)

   While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.

Derived terms

• Antlers (place name)

• bay antler
• crown antler
• deer antler knife
• velvet antler

 

Translations

bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk

• Albanian: bri (sq) sg, brinj pl
• Armenian: եղջյուր (hy) (eġǰyur)
• Belarusian: рог m (roh)
• Bulgarian: еленов рог m (elenov rog), рог (bg) m (rog)
• Burmese: ချို (my) (hkyui)
• Catalan: banya (ca) f
• Central Sierra Miwok: kíl·i-
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹿角 (zh) (lùjiǎo), 角 (zh) (jiǎo)

• Czech: paroh (cs) m
• Danish: gevir n (pair of antlers)
• Dutch: gewei (nl) n
• Esperanto: ramuro
• Finnish: sarvi (fi), sarvikruunu (pair)
• French: bois (fr) m, andouiller (fr) m
• Galician: corno (gl) m
• Georgian: ქორბუდა (korbuda), რქა (rka)
• German: Geweih (de) n
• Greenlandic: nassuk
• Guaraní: tatĩ
• Hungarian: agancs (hu)
• Icelandic: horn (is) n
• Indonesian: tanduk (id)
• Interlingua: corno (de cervideos)
• Irish: beann f
• Italian: corno (it) sg, corna (it) pl, corno ramificato, palco (it) m
• Japanese: 角 (ja) (つの, tsuno)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 뿔 (ko) (ppul), ^{(please verify)} 가지진 뿔 (gajijin ppul)
• Latin: cornu (rāmōsum) n
• Macedonian: роговје n (rogovje), рог m (rog)
• Maori: maire
• Northern Sami: čoarvi
• Norwegian: horn (no) n

  Bokmål: gevir n (pair of antlers)

  Nynorsk: gevir n (pair)

• Occitan: còrn (oc) m, bana (oc) f
• Old English: horn (ang) m
• Old Norse: horn n
• Polish: róg (pl) m inan, (collective) poroże (pl) n
• Portuguese: chifre (pt) m, corno (de cervídeos) m, galhada (pt) f
• Romanian: corn (ro) sg, coarne (ro) pl
• Russian: рог (ru) m (rog), рог (ru) m pl (rog), олений рог m (olenij rog)
• Scottish Gaelic: cabar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рог m

  Roman: rog (sh) m

• Slovak: paroh m
• Slovene: rogovi m pl
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rog m

• Spanish: cornamenta (es) f, asta (es) f, cuerno (es) m
• Swahili: pembe-tawi
• Swedish: horn (sv) n, krona (sv) c, hjorthorn (sv) n, älghorn (sv) n
• Turkish: boynuz (tr)
• Ukrainian: ріг (uk) m (rih)
• Volapük: tuigahon
• Welsh: corn (cy) m, (archaic) rhaidd f
• Zazaki: qoçêkosbes, qoç

Anagrams

• Lenart, altern, learnt, rental, ternal