# gazelle
## English
### Alternative forms

* gazel (archaic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡəˈzɛl/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛl

### Noun

gazelle (plural gazelles or gazelle)
* An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, 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
* gazellelike
* 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

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
Lingala: mbólókó class 9/10
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: /ˌɣaːˈzɛ.lə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ga‧zel‧le

### Noun

gazelle f (plural gazellen, diminutive gazelletje n)
* gazelle, mammal of the tribe Antilopini

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.zɛl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gazelle f (plural gazelles)
* gazelle

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* allégez