mouflon

mouflon

English

A mouflon

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• moufflon

Etymology

Borrowed from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/
• Rhymes: -uːflɒn, -uːflɑːn

Noun

mouflon (plural mouflons)

1. A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. [from c. 1770]

Translations

sheep

Albanian: mufloni Basque: mufloi Belarusian: муфло́н (muflón) Breton: mouflon Bulgarian: муфло́н (muflón) Catalan: mufló Corsican: muvrinu Czech: muflon (cs) Danish: muflon Dutch: moeflon (nl) m Esperanto: muflono Estonian: muflon Finnish: mufloni (fi) French: mouflon (fr) m Friulian: muflon Galician: muflón German: Mufflon (de) m Greek: μουφλόν (el) (mouflón) Hungarian: muflon (hu) Irish: caora mouflon f Italian: muflone (it) m Japanese: ムフロン (ja) (mufuron) Ladin: muflon Latin: mūsimō m Latvian: muflons Lithuanian: muflonas (lt) Lower Sorbian: muflon Macedonian: муфлон (muflon) Maltese: muflun Norwegian: mufflon Occitan: moflon (oc) Persian: موک‎ (fa) (muk) Polish: muflon (pl) Portuguese: muflão (pt) m Romanian: muflon (ro) m Romansch: muflon Russian: муфло́н (ru) (muflón) Sami: muflon, meahccesávza Sardinian: mruvoni, mugra, muva, murgone Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic spelling: муфлон Roman spelling: muflon (sh) Slovak: muflón Slovene: muflon (sl) Spanish: muflón m Swedish: mufflon Turkish: yaban koyunu (tr), muflon (tr) Ukrainian: муфлон (muflon) Upper Sorbian: muflon Welsh: mwfflon West Frisian: moeflon

Anagrams

• moonful

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French

Etymology

From Italian muflone.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mouflon m (plural mouflons)

1. mouflon

Descendants

• → English: mouflon

Further reading

• “mouflon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.