guib

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

guib (plural guibs)

  1. The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.
    • 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:
      The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

guib

  1. Obsolete spelling of goib

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
guib ghuib nguib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

guib m (invariable)

  1. (any of various antelopes with vertical white stripes on the back)
  2. bushbuck, guib, harnessed bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
  3. kéwel
    Synonym: tragelafo striato

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

guib m

  1. genitive singular of gob
  2. plural of gob

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
guib ghuib
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.