# antelope
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæn.tɪ.ləʊp/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈæn.tɪ.loʊp/
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈæn.tə.loʊp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)
* Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
* (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
** 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
** 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:"It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
* (archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.

#### Derived terms

* antelabbit
* antelope brush
* antelope bush
* Antelope County
* antelopelike
* Antelope Mesa
* antelope squirrel
* blue antelope
* bush antelope
* goat antelope
* goat-antelope
* harnessed antelope
* jackalope
* mountain antelope
* roan antelope
* royal antelope
* sable antelope
* saiga antelope
* screwhorn antelope
* Speke's antelope
* springer antelope
* Tibetan antelope
* white antelope
* zebra antelope

#### Descendants

* → Irish: antalóp
* → Manx: antelope

#### Translations

Afrikaans: bok (af), wildsbok (af)
Albanian: antilopë (sq) f
Arabic: ظَبْي (ar) m (ẓaby)
Armenian: այծքաղ (hy) (ayckʻaġ)
Asturian: antílope (ast)
Azerbaijani: antilop
Basque: antilope (eu)
Belarusian: антыло́па f (antylópa)
Bulgarian: антило́па (bg) f (antilópa)
Burmese: ဒရယ်ငယ် (da.rai-ngai)
Catalan: antílop (ca) m
Cherokee: ᎠᏫᏳᏍᏘ (awiyusti)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 羚羊 (ling$^4$ joeng$^4$)
Hakka: 羚羊 (lìn-yòng)
Hokkien: 羚羊 (lêng-iông)
Mandarin: 羚羊 (zh) (língyáng)
Czech: antilopa (cs) f
Danish: antilope (da) c
Dutch: antilope (nl) f
Egyptian: (šsꜣw m) (bubal hartebeest), (mꜣ m) (oryx)
Esperanto: antilopo
Estonian: antiloop
Ewe: to
Finnish: antilooppi (fi)
French: antilope (fr) f
Friulian: antilope f
Galician: antílope (gl) m
Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)
German: Antilope (de) f
Greek: αντιλόπη (el) f (antilópi)
Ancient: δορκάς f (dorkás), βούβαλις f (boúbalis)
Gujarati: કાળિયાર m (kāḷiyār), કૃષ્ણમૃગ ? (kŕṣṇamŕg)
Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: 'm'ul
Hebrew: אַנְטִילוֹפָּה (he) f (antilópa)
Hindi: मृग (hi) m (mŕg), हिरन (hi) m (hiran), कुरंग (hi) ? (kuraṅg)
Hungarian: antilop (hu)
Ibibio: edop
Icelandic: antilópa (is) f
Irish: antalóp m
Italian: antilope (it) f
Japanese: 羚羊 (ja) (レイヨウ, reiyō)
Kazakh: бөкен (böken)
Korean: 영양(羚羊) (ko) (yeong'yang)
Kyrgyz: антилопа (antilopa), бөкөн (ky) (bökön)
Latin: dorcas f, oryx m
Latvian: antilope f
Lithuanian: antilopė (lt) f
Macedonian: антилопа f (antilopa)
Malay: antelop
Manx: antelope m
Maori: anaterope
Marathi: काळवीट n (kāḷvīṭ)
Mongolian: гөрөөс (mn) (göröös), зээр (mn) (zeer)
Navajo: jádí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: antilope (no) m
Nynorsk: antilope f
Persian: آنتلوپ (ântelop), تیبا (fa) (tibâ)
Polish: antylopa (pl) f
Portuguese: antílope (pt) m
Romanian: antilopă (ro) f
Russian: антило́па (ru) f (antilópa)
Sahaptin: chatwill f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: антѝлопа f
Roman: antìlopa (sh) f
Shor: чеерен
Slovak: antilopa f
Slovene: antilopa (sl) f
Spanish: antílope (es) m
Swahili: pofu (sw), kulungu (sw), pala hala, paa (sw)
Swedish: antilop (sv) c
Tagalog: antilope, bubalo
Tajik: антилопа (antilopa), ғизол (ġizol)
Thai: จามจุรี (th) (jaam-jù-rii), แอนทิโลป
Turkish: ceylan (tr), antilop (tr)
Turkmen: antilopa (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎇𐎎𐎗 (zmr)
Ukrainian: антило́па (uk) f (antylópa)
Uyghur: بۆكەن (böken)
Uzbek: antilopa, antilop
Vietnamese: linh dương (vi) (羚羊)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Wolof: kooba gi
Zazaki: antilop (diq), kosbes c
Zulu: iwula
Zuni: mawi :

#### See also

* bontebok
* dik-dik
* eland
* gazelle
* gemsbock
* hartebeest
* herd
* klipspringer
* kudu
* oryx
* roan
* springbok
* topi
* waterbuck
* wildebeest

### See also

* Appendix: Animals
* Appendix:English collective nouns

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* antlop, anteloppe, antyloppe, antlope, antilope, antelop

### Etymology

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈantəlɔːp/, /ˈantəlɔp/

### Noun

antelope (plural antelopes)
* antelope
* (heraldry) heraldic antelope

#### Descendants

* English: antelope
** → Irish: antalóp
** → Manx: antelope
* Scots: antelope

#### References

* “antelō̆pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.