blesbok
English
Noun
blesbok (plural blesboks)
- Alternative form of blesbuck
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her.
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Afrikaans
Pronunciation
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Noun
blesbok (plural blesbokke)
- blesbuck
Descendants
- → English: blesbuck
- → Italian: blesbok
Dutch
Etymology
Compound of bles + bok.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛs.bɔk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bles‧bok
Noun
blesbok m (plural blesbokken, diminutive blesbokje n)
- blesbuck, Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi [from early 19th c.]
Italian
![](Images/wiktionary/Blesbok%252C_Damaliscus_pygargus_phillipsi%252C_at_Krugersdorp_Game_Reserve%252C_Gauteng%252C_South_Africa_(26872993194).jpg.webp)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans blesbok.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛ.zbok/
- Rhymes: -ɛzbok
- Hyphenation: blè‧sbok
Noun
blesbok m (invariable)
- blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi)
Further reading
- blesbok in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana