saiga

See also: Saiga and saïga

English

A saiga

Etymology

From Russian сайга́ (sajgá), alternative form of сайга́к (sajgák), from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “chamois”).

Noun

saiga (plural saigas)

1. Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

   Synonym: saiga antelope

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

     Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

Synonyms

• (Saiga tatarica): steppe saiga

Coordinate terms

• (Saiga tatarica): Mongolian saiga, possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica; Saiga borealis, possibly extinct or possibly including the Mongolian saiga

Translations

antelope

• Assamese: চাইগা (saiga)
• Breton: saiga
• Bulgarian: сайга (sajga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高鼻羚羊

• Crimean Tatar: sayğaq
• Czech: sajka f, sajga (cs) f
• Dutch: saïga
• Esperanto: altnaza antilopo
• Finnish: saiga-antilooppi
• French: saïga (fr) m
• German: Saiga f
• Hungarian: szajga (hu), tatárantilop
• Irish: antalóp saigeach m
• Italian: saiga f
• Japanese: サイガ (saiga)
• Kalmyk: гөрәсн (göräsn)
• Kazakh: ақбөкен (aqböken)
• Korean: 사이가산양 (ko) (saigasanyang)
• Lithuanian: saiga
• Mongolian: бөхөн (mn) (böxön)
• Navajo: jádí bíchį́į́htsohígíí
• Polish: suhak (pl) m
• Portuguese: saiga f
• Romanian: saiga (ro) f
• Russian: сайга́к (ru) m (sajgák), сайга́ (ru) f (sajgá)
• Spanish: saiga (es) m
• Swedish: saigaantilop (sv)
• Turkish: sayga
• Ukrainian: сайгак (sajhak)
• Uyghur: قاڭشارلىق بۆكەن (qangsharliq böken)
• Vietnamese: linh dương saiga

Further reading

• saiga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saiga tatarica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Saiga tatarica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Etymology

From Russian сайга́ (sajgá).

Noun

saiga f (plural saighe)

1. saiga

Anagrams

• gasai

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

saiga m (definite singular saigaen, indefinite plural saigaer, definite plural saigaene)

1. saiga

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

saiga m (definite singular saigaen, indefinite plural saigaer or saigaar, definite plural saigaene or saigaane)

1. saiga

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.ɡɐ/ [ˈsaɪ̯.ɡɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.ɡɐ/ [ˈsaɪ̯.ɡɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.ɡa/ [ˈsaɪ̯.ɡa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaj.ɡɐ/ [ˈsaj.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: sai‧ga

Noun

saiga f (plural saigas)

1. saiga (Saiga tatarica, an antelope of Siberia)

Spanish

Noun

saiga m (plural saigas)

1. saiga

See also

• saiga on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es