roebuck

See also: Roebuck

English

Etymology

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe +‎ buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/

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Noun

roebuck (plural roebucks)

1. A male roe deer.
   • 1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:

     From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
     The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]

Derived terms

• roebuck-berry

Translations

male roe deer

• Albanian: sorkadh (sq) m, kaproll (sq) m
• Arabic: يَحْمُور (yaḥmūr)
• Asturian: corciu (ast)
• Bulgarian: сръндак m (srǎndak)
• Czech: srnec (cs) m
• Dutch: reebok (nl) m
• Finnish: metsäkaurisuros
• French: cerf (fr) m (du chevreuil)
• Friulian: cjavrûl m
• German: Rehbock (de) m
• Irish: ruaphoc m
• Italian: capriolo (it) m
• Maori: ropaka
• Middle English: roobukke
• Polish: kozioł (pl) m anim, rogacz (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: corço (pt) m
• Romanian: căprior (ro) m
• Russian: саме́ц косу́ли m (saméc kosúli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срндаћ m

  Roman: srndać m

• Slovene: srnjak m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sarnik m

• Spanish: ciervo (es) m (del corzo)
• Swedish: råbock (sv)
• Welsh: caeriwrch m