markhor

English

Etymology

A markhor

Borrowed from Hindi मारख़ोर (mārxor) and Urdu مارخور‎ (mārxor), from Persian ‎ (mârxor, literally “snake-eater”), from ‎ (mâr, “snake”) + ‎ (xor) (present stem of ‎ (khordan, “to eat”)).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːkɔː/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹkɔɹ/
Hyphenation: mar‧khor

Noun

markhor (plural markhors)

A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, especially Capra falconeri megaceros, syn. Capra megaceros, having huge flattened spiral horns, found in the western Himalayas.
- [1889 January], Rudyard Kipling, “Only a Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars (A. H. Wheeler & Co.’s Indian Railway Library; no. 4), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh: A[rthur] H[enry] Wheeler & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], OCLC 903478325, page 84:
  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 C.O. (he who spake to the seven subalterns).

Translations

Capra falconeri

Dutch: schroefhoorngeit (nl)
Finnish: kierteissarvivuohi
German: Schraubenziege (de)
Hindi: मारख़ोर (mārxor), मारखोर (hi) m (mārkhor)
Hungarian: pödröttszarvú kecske
Irish: marcár m
Persian: مارخور‎ (mârxor), مارخوار‎ (mârxâr)
Russian: винторо́гий козёл m (vintorógij kozjól), марху́р m (marxúr)
Tajik: морхӯр (tg) (morxür), морхор (morxor)
Urdu: مارخور‎ (mārxor)
Zazaki: marwor

References

markhor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Capra falconeri on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Capra falconeri on Wikispecies.Wikispecies