markhor

English

Etymology

A markhor

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkɔɹ/

Noun

markhor (plural markhors)

1. 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 […]

Translations

Capra falconeri

• Dutch: schroefhoorngeit
• German: Schraubenziege
• Hindi: मारख़ोर (mārxor)
• Hungarian: pödröttszarvú kecske
• Irish: marcár m

• Navajo: tłʼízí bideeʼ yisdizígíí
• Persian: مارخور‏‎ (mârxor), مارخوار‏‎ (mârxâr)
• Russian: винторо́гий козёл m (vintorógij kozjól), марху́р m (marxúr)
• Tajik: морхӯр (tg) (morxür), морхор (morxor)
• Urdu: مارخور‏‎ (mārxor)