gazelle

See also: Gazelle

English

Gazella bennettii

Alternative forms

• gazel (archaic)

Etymology

From French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال‎ (ḡazāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛl/

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Noun

gazelle (plural gazelles or gazelle)

1. An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

Derived terms

• Cuvier's gazelle
• Dama gazelle
• Dorcas gazelle
• goitered gazelle
• Grant's gazelle
• Indian gazelle
• Mongalla gazelle
• Mongolian gazelle
• mountain gazelle
• Przewalski's gazelle
• red-fronted gazelle
• slender-horned gazelle
• Soemmerring's gazelle
• Speke's gazelle
• Thomson's gazelle
• Tibetan gazelle

 

Translations

antelope

• Arabic: غَزَال‎ m (ḡazāl),ظَبِي‎ (ar) m (ẓabī)

  Egyptian Arabic: غزال‎ m (ḡazāl)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܛܒܝܐ‎ m (ṭaḇyā)

  Hebrew: טַבְיָא‎ m (ṭaḇyā)

• Armenian: վիթ (hy) (vitʿ)
• Azerbaijani: قازللا‎ (qazlla), جئيران‎ (ceyran‎), ceyran (az)
• Basque: gazela (eu)
• Breton: gazelenn
• Catalan: gasela (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瞪羚 (zh) (dènglíng)

• Czech: gazela (cs) f
• Danish: gazelle c
• Dutch: gazelle (nl) f
• Egyptian: (gḥs)
• Esperanto: gazelo
• Ewe: sẽ n
• Finnish: gaselli (fi)
• French: gazelle (fr) f
• Georgian: ქურციკი (kurciḳi)
• German: Gazelle (de) f
• Greek: γαζέλα (el) f (gazéla)

  Ancient: δορκάς f (dorkás)

• Hebrew: צבי‎ (he) (tsvi)
• Hungarian: gazella (hu)
• Irish: gasail f
• Italian: gazzella (it) f
• Japanese: ガゼル (ja) (gazeru)

• Korean: 가젤 (gajel)
• Kurdish: xezal (ku)
• Latin: dorcas f
• Macedonian: газела f (gazela)
• Maltese: għażżiel
• Manx: gaselle f
• Maori: kahera
• Mongolian: зээр (mn) (zeer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gasell m

  Nynorsk: gasell m

• Persian: آهو‎ (fa) (âhu), غزال‎ (fa) (ğazâl)
• Polish: gazela (pl) f
• Portuguese: gazela (pt) f
• Romanian: gazelă (ro) f
• Russian: газе́ль (ru) f (gazélʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: gasail f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: газела f

  Roman: gazela (sh) f

• Spanish: gacela (es) f
• Swahili: swala (sw), swara (sw)
• Swedish: gasell c
• Tagalog: gasela
• Turkish: ceylan (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎑𐎁𐎊 m (ẓby)
• Welsh: gafrewig f
• Wolof: kéwél gi
• Zazaki: ğezal f

See also

• gazelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gazella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Pronunciation

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Noun

gazelle f (plural gazellen, diminutive gazelletje n)

1. gazelle

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French

Etymology

From Arabic غَزَال‎ (ḡazāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɛl/

Noun

gazelle f (plural gazelles)

1. gazelle
2. (Morocco) beautiful young (especially European) woman

Further reading

• “gazelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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