gazelle

See also: Gazelle

English

Gazella bennettii

Alternative forms

• gazel (archaic)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛl/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

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

• addra gazelle (Nanger dama)
• Arabian gazelle (Gazella arabica)
• Arabian sand gazelle (Gazella marica)
• ariel gazelle (Gazella dorcas)
• black-tailed gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa)
• Clarke's gazelle (Ammodorcas clarkei)
• Cuvier's gazelle (Gazella cuvieri)
• dama gazelle (Nanger dama)
• dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas)
• Eritrean gazelle (Eudorcas tilonura)
• Erlanger's gazelle (Gazella erlangeri)
• gazelle in the garden, gazelle on the lawn
• giraffe gazelle (Litocranius walleri)
• goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa)
• Grant's gazelle (Nanger granti)
• Heuglin's gazelle (Eudorcas tilonura)
• Indian gazelle (Gazella bennettii)
• mhorr gazelle (Nanger dama)
• Mongalla gazelle (Eudorcas albonotata)
• Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa)
• mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)
• Neumann's gazelle (Gazella erlangeri)
• Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella)
• Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii)
• red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons)
• rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros)
• Robert's gazelle (Nanger granti robertsi)
• sand gazelle (Gazella leptoceros)
• slender-horned gazelle (Gazella leptoceros)
• Soemmerring's gazelle (Nanger soemmerringi)
• Speke's gazelle (Gazella spekei)
• Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii)
• Tibetan gazelle (Procapra picticaudata)
• true gazelle (Gazella gazella)
• Waller's gazelle (Litocranius walleri)

 

Translations

antelope

• Afar: simbilqá f
• 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) (vitʻ)
• Azerbaijani: ceyran (az)
• Basque: gazela (eu)
• Breton: gazelenn
• Bulgarian: газела (bg) f (gazela)
• 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:

  Central Kurdish: ئاسک (ask)

  Northern Kurdish: xezal (ku)

• Latin: dorcas f, oryx m
• 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

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

References

• gazelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Antilopinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Antilopinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “*gazelle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French gazelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɣaːˈzɛ.lə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ga‧zel‧le

Noun

gazelle f (plural gazellen, diminutive gazelletje n)

1. gazelle, mammal of the tribe Antilopini

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

gazelle f (plural gazelles)

1. gazelle

Further reading

• “gazelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• allégez