mouflon

English

A mouflon

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• moufflon

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/
• Rhymes: -uːflɒn, -uːflɑːn

Noun

mouflon (plural mouflons)

1. A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. [from c. 1770]
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237:

     One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.

Translations

sheep

• Albanian: mufloni
• Arabic: أُرْوِيَّة f (ʔurwiyya)
• Basque: mufloi
• Belarusian: муфло́н (muflón)
• Breton: mouflon
• Bulgarian: муфло́н (muflón)
• Catalan: mufló
• Corsican: muvrinu
• Czech: muflon (cs)
• Danish: muflon
• Dutch: moeflon (nl) m
• Esperanto: muflono
• Estonian: muflon
• Finnish: mufloni (fi)
• French: mouflon (fr) m
• Friulian: muflon
• Galician: muflón
• German: Mufflon (de) m
• Greek: μουφλόν (el) (mouflón)
• Hungarian: muflon (hu)
• Irish: caora mouflon f
• Italian: muflone (it) m
• Japanese: ムフロン (ja) (mufuron)
• Ladin: muflon
• Latin: mūsimō m
• Latvian: muflons
• Lithuanian: muflonas (lt)
• Lower Sorbian: muflon
• Macedonian: муфлон (muflon)
• Maltese: muflun
• Norwegian: mufflon
• Occitan: moflon (oc)
• Persian: موک (fa) (muk)
• Polish: muflon (pl)
• Portuguese: muflão (pt) m
• Romanian: muflon (ro) m
• Romansch: muflon
• Russian: муфло́н (ru) (muflón)
• Sami: muflon, meahccesávza
• Sardinian: mruvoni, mugra, muva, murgone
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic spelling: муфлон

  Roman spelling: muflon (sh)

• Slovak: muflón
• Slovene: muflon (sl)
• Spanish: muflón m
• Swedish: mufflon
• Turkish: yaban koyunu (tr), muflon (tr)
• Ukrainian: муфлон (muflon)
• Upper Sorbian: muflon
• Welsh: mwfflon
• West Frisian: moeflon

Anagrams

• moonful

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian muflone.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

mouflon m (plural mouflons)

1. mouflon

Descendants

• → English: mouflon
• → German: Mufflon

Further reading

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