hartebeest

English

Red hartebeest

Etymology

From early Afrikaans hartebeest (now hartebees), from Dutch hert (“deer, hart”) +‎ Dutch beest (“beast”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːtəbiːst/

Noun

hartebeest (plural hartebeest or hartebeests or (rare) hartebeesten)

2. A species of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.

   Synonym: kaama

   Coordinate term: wildebeest

   • 1842 February 16, O. P. Q., “New Zealand and the Cape”, in The New Zealand Journal, volume III, London: […] Henry Hobbs Chambers, […], page 46, column 1:

     Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen bucks, ree bucks, and a few hartebeesten.

   • 1891, Robert Russell, “Natal in 1800”, in “Sailors and Natives”, in Natal: The Land and Its Story: A Geography and History for the Use of Schools (with Map), Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis and Sons, page 113:

     Immense troops of elephants roamed the coastlands and the thorns; lions and panthers lurked in the kloofs and among broken ground; elands, hartebeesten, and other antelopes swarmed in the veld; and hippopotami and crocodiles abounded in the rivers.

   • 1897, H[endrik] C[arel] V[os] Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January, 1659–May, 1662. [Abraham van] Riebeeck’s Journal, &c., part III, Cape Town: W[illiam] A[ttwell] Richards & Sons, […], pages 230–231:

     Here all kinds of animals are found, viz., lions, rhinoceroses, horses (zebras), ostriches and hartebeesten in multitudes, there being always good water and grass here. […] We also saw 13 horses (zebras), 5 rhinoceroses, some ostriches and thousands of hartebeesten. […] A little further on I encountered a herd of hartebeesten, four of which I wounded, though I only secured one, which I laid on one of the oxen.

Derived terms

• bastard hartebeest
• Coke's hartebeest
• Jackson's hartebeest
• Lelwel hartebeest
• Neumann's hartebeest
• Swayne's hartebeest
• tora hartebeest

Descendants

• → Japanese: ハーテビースト (hātebīsuto)
• → Portuguese: hartebeest

Translations

Alcelaphus bucelaphus

• Afrikaans: hartebees
• Arabic: ثَيْتَل m (ṯaytal)
• Catalan: búbal (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狷羚 (juànlíng), 麋羚 (mílíng)

• Dutch: hartenbeest (nl) n
• Finnish: kongoni (fi)
• French: bubale roux (fr) m, bubale (fr) m
• German: Kuhantilope f
• Hadza: qqeléakho
• Irish: hartaibéist f
• Italian: kongoni m, alcelafo m, kaama m
• Japanese: ハーテビースト (hātebīsuto)
• Nandi: chemnyōkōso
• Portuguese: hartebeest m, veado-do-cabo m
• Russian: буба́л m (bubál), коро́вья антило́па f (koróvʹja antilópa)
• Spanish: alcélafo m, bubal m, ñu rojo m
• Swahili: kongoni (sw)
• Tswana: kgama
• Zulu: indluzele

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hartebeest, from early Afrikaans hartebeest.

Noun

hartebeest m (plural hartebeests)

1. hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus)

   Synonyms: vaca-do-mato, veado-do-cabo

   Hyponym: caama