gazelle

See also: Gazelle

Contents

EnglishEdit

Gazella bennettii

Alternative formsEdit

• gazel (archaic)

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈzɛl/

• Audio (UK)

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NounEdit

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 termsEdit

Terms derived from gazelle

• 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

TranslationsEdit

antelope

• Arabic: غَزَال‎ m (ḡazāl)
• Armenian: վիթ (hy) (vitʿ)
• Basque: gazela (eu)
• Breton: gazelenn
• Catalan: gasela 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
• French: gazelle (fr) f
• Georgian: ქურციკი (kurciḳi)
• German: Gazelle (de) f
• Greek: γαζέλα (el) f (gazéla)
• Hebrew: צבי‎ (he) (tsvi)
• Hungarian: gazella (hu)
• Irish: gasail f

• Italian: gazzella (it) f
• Japanese: ガゼル (ja) (gazeru)
• Macedonian: газела f (gazela)
• Maltese: għażżiel
• Maori: kahera
• Mongolian: зээр (mn) (zeer)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gasell m

  Nynorsk: gasell m

• Persian: آهو‎ (fa) (âhu), غزال‎ (fa) (ğazâl)
• Portuguese: gazela (pt) f
• Romanian: gazelă (ro) f
• Russian: газе́ль (ru) f (gazélʹ)
• 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)
• Wolof: kéwél gi

See alsoEdit

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

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• audio

  (file)

NounEdit

gazelle f (plural gazellen, diminutive gazelletje n)

1. gazelle

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic غزال (ghazāl).

NounEdit

gazelle f (plural gazelles)

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

AnagramsEdit

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Further readingEdit

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