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), which is of obscure origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)

1. Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
2. (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

     Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.

   • 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:

     "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.

3. (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

• antelabbit
• antelope brush
• antelope bush
• Antelope County
• antelopelike
• Antelope Mesa
• antelope squirrel
• blue antelope
• bush antelope
• goat-antelope
• goat antelope
• harnessed antelope
• jackalope
• mountain antelope
• roan antelope
• royal antelope
• sable antelope
• saiga antelope
• screwhorn antelope
• springer antelope
• Tibetan antelope
• white antelope
• zebra antelope

 

Descendants

• → Irish: antalóp
• → Manx: antelope

Translations

mammal of the family Bovidae

• Afrikaans: bok (af), wildsbok (af)
• Albanian: antilopë (sq) f
• Arabic: ظَبْي (ar) m (ẓaby)
• Armenian: այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʻaġ)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)

  Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)

• Czech: antilopa (cs) f
• Danish: antilope (da) c
• Dutch: antilope (nl) f
• Egyptian: (šsꜣw m) (bubal hartebeest),

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• 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 ? (kŕṣṇamŕg)
• 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
• Marathi: काळवीट n (kāḷvīṭ)
• 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 c
• Zulu: iwula
• Zuni: mawi

pronghorn — see pronghorn

See also

• bontebok
• dik-dik
• eland
• gazelle
• gemsbock
• hartebeest
• herd
• klipspringer
• kudu
• oryx
• roan
• springbok
• topi
• waterbuck
• wildebeest

 

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Middle English

Alternative forms

• antlop, anteloppe, antyloppe, antlope, antilope, antelop

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈantəlɔːp/, /ˈantəlɔp/

Noun

antelope (plural antelopes)

1. antelope
2. (heraldry) heraldic antelope

Descendants

• English: antelope
  • → Irish: antalóp
  • → Manx: antelope
• Scots: antelope

References

• “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.