markhor
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hindi मारख़ोर (mārxor) and Urdu مارخور (mārxor), from Persian مارخور (mârxor) (lit. snake-eater), from مار (mâr, “snake”) + خور (xor), present stem of verb خوردن (khordan, “to eat”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
markhor (plural markhors)
- A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, found in the western Himalayas.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, page 69:
- He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuff-mull presented by the last CO […]
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, page 69:
Translations[edit]
Capra falconeri
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