antelope

See also: Antelope

English

Antilope cervicapra

Etymology

From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
(weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/
Audio (Berkshire, UK) (file)

Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
(US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
- 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80
  "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
(archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.

Derived terms

Antelope County
bush antelope
goat antelope
goat-antelope
mountain antelope
roan antelope
royal antelope
sable antelope
saiga antelope
screwhorn antelope
springer antelope
Tibetan antelope
white antelope

Descendants

→ Irish: antalóp
→ Manx: antelope

Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

Afrikaans: bok (af), wildsbok
Albanian: antilopë (sq) f
Arabic: ظَبْي‎ (ar) m (ẓaby)
Armenian: այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʿał)
Asturian: antílope (ast)
Azerbaijani: antilop
Basque: antilope (eu)
Belarusian: антыло́па f (antylópa)
Bulgarian: антило́па (bg) f (antilópa)
Burmese: ဒရယ်ငယ် (da.rai-ngai)
Catalan: antílop (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏳᏍᏘ (awiyusti)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羚羊 (ling⁴ joeng⁴)
Hakka: 羚羊 (lìn-yòng)
Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)
Min Nan: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)
Czech: antilopa (cs) f
Danish: antilope (da) c
Dutch: antilope (nl) f
Egyptian:

(šsꜣw m) (bubal hartebeest),

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(mꜣ m) (oryx)
Esperanto: antilopo
Estonian: antiloop
Ewe: to
Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
French: antilope (fr) f
Friulian: antilope f
Galician: antílope (gl) m
Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)
German: Antilope (de) f
Greek: αντιλόπη (el) f (antilópi)
Ancient: δορκάς f (dorkás), βούβαλις f (boúbalis)
Gujarati: કાળિયાર m (kāḷiyār), કૃષ્ણમૃગ ? (kṛṣṇamṛg)
Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: 'm'ul
Hebrew: אַנְטִילוֹפָּה‎ (he) f (antilópa)
Hindi: मृग (hi) m (mŕg), हिरन (hi) m (hiran), कुरंग (hi) ? (kuraṅg)
Hungarian: antilop (hu)
Ibibio: edop
Icelandic: antilópa (is) f
Irish: antalóp m
Italian: antilope (it) f
Japanese: 羚羊 (ja) (レイヨウ, reiyō)
Kazakh: бөкен (böken)
Korean: 영양(羚羊) (ko) (yeong'yang)
Kyrgyz: антилопа (antilopa), бөкөн (ky) (bökön)
Latin: dorcas f, oryx m
Latvian: antilope f
Lithuanian: antilopė (lt) f
Macedonian: антилопа f (antilopa)
Malay: antelop
Manx: antelope m
Maori: anaterope
Mongolian: гөрөөс (mn) (göröös), зээр (mn) (zeer)
Navajo: jádí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: antilope (no) m
Nynorsk: antilope f
Persian: آنتلوپ‎ (ântelop), تیبا‎ (fa) (tibâ)
Polish: antylopa (pl) f
Portuguese: antílope (pt) m
Romanian: antilopă (ro) f
Russian: антило́па (ru) f (antilópa)
Sahaptin: chatwill f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: антѝлопа f
Roman: antìlopa (sh) f
Shor: чеерен
Slovak: antilopa f
Slovene: antilopa (sl) f
Spanish: antílope (es) m
Swahili: pofu (sw), kulungu (sw), pala hala, paa (sw)
Swedish: antilop (sv) c
Tagalog: antilope, bubalo
Tajik: антилопа (antilopa), ғизол (ġizol)
Thai: จามจุรี (th) (jaam-jù-rii), แอนทิโลป
Turkish: ceylan (tr), antilop (tr)
Turkmen: antilopa (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎎𐎗 (zmr)
Ukrainian: антило́па (uk) f (antylópa)
Uyghur: بۆكەن‎ (böken)
Uzbek: antilopa, antilop
Vietnamese: linh dương (vi) (羚羊)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Wolof: kooba gi
Zazaki: antilop (diq), kosbes (diq) c
Zulu: iwula
Zuni: mawi