quagga
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch quagga (whence also Afrikaans kwagga), from a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom, Khoekhoe ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (General South African) IPA(key): /ˈkwaxə/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒɡə/
- (US) IPA(key): /kwæɡə/, /kwɑɡə/[1]
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡə, -ɑːɡə
Noun
editquagga (plural quaggas)
- A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
- Short for quagga mussel.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editEquus quagga quagga
References
edit- ^ “quagga”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom, Khoekhoe ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editquagga m (invariable)
- plains zebra (Equus quagga)
- Hypernym: zebra
Further reading
edit- quagga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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