Antilope cervicapra
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.
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.
- (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
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), (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 ? (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
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈantəlɔːp/, /ˈantəlɔp/