common eland

an antelope, Taurotragus oryx, of the African savannah


marsh buck

marsh bucks (plural)
marshbuck (alternative)

Tragelaphus scriptus
Tragelaphus scriptus#Translingual

An antelope found in forests throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Tragelaphus scriptus.


Arabian oryx

en-noun

Arabian oryx (plural Arabian oryxes or Arabian oryx)

Arabian oryxes (plural)
Arabian oryx (plural)


scimitar-horned oryx

scimitar-horned oryx (plural scimitar-horned oryxes or scimitar-horned oryx)

scimitar-horned oryxes (plural)
scimitar-horned oryx (plural)
scimitar oryx (alternative)

A critically endangered antelope, Oryx dammah, living in the arid plains and deserts of North Africa.


bongo

Tragelaphus eurycerus
Tragelaphus eurycerus#Translingual

A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.


bongo

From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.

He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.

1984, Dire Straits (band), Money for Nothing (song)

Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.


bongo

en-verb

bongo (third-person singular simple present bongos, present participle bongoing, simple past and past participle bongoed)

bongos (present singular third-person)
bongoing (participle present)
bongoed (participle past)
bongoed (past)


brindled gnu

en-noun

brindled gnu (plural brindled gnus or brindled gnu)

brindled gnus (plural)
brindled gnu (plural)

The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)


impala

impalas (plural)
impala (plural)
impalla (alternative)

An African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, noted for its leaping ability; the male has ridged, curved horns.


slender-horned gazelle

slender-horned gazelle (plural slender-horned gazelles)

A gazelle with slender horns adapted to desert life (Gazella leptoceros).


gnu

Borrowed from Khoekhoe ǃnu:, likely onomatopoeic of the grunt-type noise of the gnu.

A large antelope of the genus Connochaetes, native to Africa, having curved horns.


antelope

→ Irish: antalóp

→ Manx: antelope

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

Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.

Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.

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:

"It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.

1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80:

Antilocapra americana
Antilocapra americana#Translingual

(US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.

(archaic, mythology) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.


gazelle

gazelles (plural)
gazelle (plural)
gazel (alternative)

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

ubor

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.


oryx

en-noun

oryx (plural oryxes or oryx or (rare) oryges)

oryxes (plural)
oryx (plural)
oryges (plural rare)

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).

der

Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns


wildebeest

en-noun

wildebeest (plural wildebeest or wildebeests or (rare) wildebeesten)

wildebeest (plural)
wildebeests (plural)
wildebeesten (plural rare)

→ Japanese: ウィルドビースト (wirudobīsuto)

Borrowed in the early 19th century from early Afrikaans wildebeest, modern wildebees (literally “wild ox”), with influence from beast.

Coordinate term: hartebeest

Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:

Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.

2013, Eleanor Morse, White Dog Fell From the Sky:


doe

doe (countable and uncountable, plural doe or does)

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

der

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kid

en-noun

kid (countable and uncountable, plural kids)

From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec.
Sense of child since 1590s as cant, since 1840s in informal use.

der

is that what the kids are calling it these days

Only '90s kids will remember this toy.

He's been living in Los Angeles for years now, but he's a Florida kid.

(informal) A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.

(informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area.

No, kid, you didn't do anything wrong; they did!

Here's looking at you, kid.

1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Rick (Humphrey Bogart):

(in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.

I have three pairs of kid gloves. I've had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers.

1912, Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs: Letter 3:

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—[…].

1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:

A young goat.
(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.


dik-dik

Imitative of the sound made by the animal when alarmed.

A small antelope of the genus Madoqua, native to southern and eastern Africa, having an elongated snout, a brown or grey/gray coat with a white belly, and an upright tuft on the crown.


kudu

kudus (plural)
kudu (plural)
koodoo (alternative)
koudou (alternative)

Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.

Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 72:

I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.

2004 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:

A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).

koedoe

Tragelaphus imberbis or Tragelaphus strepsiceros


klipspringer

Borrowed from Afrikaans klipspringer, from Dutch klipspringer, both literally meaning "rock-jumper".

A small antelope native to eastern and southern Africa having a dense, brown, speckled coat (Oreotragus oreotragus).


springbok

en-noun

springbok (plural springbok or springboks)

springbok (plural)
springboks (plural)
springbuck (alternative)

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Borrowed from Afrikaans springbok, from Dutch springbok, from springen (“to jump, spring”) + bok (“buck, billy goat, antelope”).

A small, fast antelope native to southern Africa, Antidorcas marsupialis.


nyala

Probably borrowed from Tsonga nyala. The alternative form inyala is from Zulu inyala.

A southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii (syn. Nyala angasii), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist.


eland

Borrowed from Afrikaans eland, from Dutch eland (“elk”), from Middle Dutch elant, from obsolete early modern German elend, from Middle High German elen, see German Elen for more. Doublet of elk.

As a matter of fact, however, I had never seen an eland in a wild state before.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh.


addax

From French addax, from Arabic أبو عدس (ʔabū ʕadas, literally “father of the lentil”).

der

In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, page 53:

A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus) with long, corkscrewing horns which lives in the desert.


goa

A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.


puku

A medium-sized antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii).


oribi

(South Africa) Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope.


sitatunga

sitatungas (plural)
situtunga (alternative)

/sɪtəˈtʌŋɡə/

‘There's plenty here,’ he grunts, nodding at the bloated carcasses of two hartebeests and a sitatunga.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 148:


topi

An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum syn. Damaliscus lunatus.


kob

kobs (plural)
kob (plural)
koba (alternative)

Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.


waterbuck

en-noun

waterbuck (plural waterbucks or waterbuck)

From Afrikaans waterbok, after the animal's habit of escaping to waterways.
Wikispecies

A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.


chinkara

chinkaras (plural)
chikara (alternative)

Gazella bennettii, a species of gazelle found in India, Pakistan and Iran


saiga

From Russian сайга́ (sajgá), alternative form of сайга́к (sajgák), from Chagatai سایغاق (saiɣak, “chamois”).

Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

possibly a subspecies Saiga tatarica mongolica


korin

Aoudads, korins, mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets […]

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 64:

A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons.


nilgai

nilgais (plural)
nilgai (plural)
nilghai (alternative)
nilghau (alternative)
nilgau (alternative)
nylghau (alternative)
nylgau (alternative)
neelghau (alternative)
neelgye (alternative)

From Hindi नीलगाय (nīlgāy, “nilgai”), from नीला (nīlā, “blue”) + गाय (gāy, “cow”).

A large antelope, of species Boselaphus tragocamelus, of India; blue bull.


gemsbok

From Afrikaans gemsbok, from Dutch gemsbok, from gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck”), the former from German Gämse, of uncertain origin.

A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).

gemsbok

a large African antelope of the Oryx genus


bushbuck

bushbucks (plural)
bushbuck (plural)
bosbok (alternative)
boschbok (alternative)
boshbok (alternative)

Either of two species of antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus or Tragelaphus sylvaticus, considered by some sources to be the single species Tragelaphus scriptus) found in Sub-Saharan Africa.


antilopine

From New Latin antilope (“antelope”) + -ine.

She kept an antilopine as a pet.


gerenuk

Unaccountably, he finds himself thinking of gerenuks and gazelles.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 139:

A type of long-necked gazelle, Litocranius walleri, native to central and eastern Africa.


blue wildebeest

blue wildebeest (plural blue wildebeest)

A large ungulate mammal of the bovid family and one of two species of wildebeest, (Connochaetes taurinus)


bubale

From Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos). Doublet of buffalo and buffle.

Any of several African buffalos of the genus Bubalus.


duiker

→ Irish: dícear

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere.

Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 65:

Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.


hirola

A type of antelope found in an area between Kenya and Somalia, Beatragus hunteri or sometimes Damaliscus hunteri.


steenbok

From Afrikaans steenbok, from Dutch steenbok.

A common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa, Raphicerus campestris.


blesbuck

A type of damalisk (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi), an African antelope closely related to the hartebeest.


blackbuck

blackbuck (plural blackbucks or blackbuck)

Antilope cervicapra
Antilope cervicapra#Translingual

An Indian antelope, Antilope cervicapra.


sable antelope

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.

A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.


tsebe

[…] the Tsebe, or Spring-Boc, Prong-Boc, or Showy Goat, is perhaps the most graceful in its proportions, and beautifully varied in its colours, of all the antelope tribe.

c. 1856, Natural History, Charles Knight:

Pair of Antlers of Axis Deer and Horns of Spring-Boc, or Tsebe, Antidorcas Euchore.

1888, Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, page 275:


kaama

kaamas (plural)
kama (alternative)
khama (alternative)

For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found at some distance from our station, the remains of a kaama or hartebeest, which had been devoured by a lion [...].

1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume 2:

Very great numbers of the large game, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, tsessébes, kamas or hartebeests, kokongs or gnus, pallahs, rhinoceroses, etc., congregated at some fountains near Kolobeng, and the trap called ‘hopo’ was constructed, in the lands adjacent, for their destruction.

1858, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:


hartebeest

hartebeest (plural hartebeest or hartebeests or (rare) hartebeesten)

hartebeest (plural)
hartebeests (plural)
hartebeesten (plural rare)

From early Afrikaans hartebeest (now hartebees), from Dutch hert (“deer, hart”) + beest (“(wild) animal, beast”).

Coordinate term: wildebeest

Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen bucks, ree bucks, and a few hartebeesten.

1842 February 16, O. P. Q., “New Zealand and the Cape”, in The New Zealand Journal, volume III, London: […] Henry Hobbs Chambers, […], page 46, column 1:

Immense troops of elephants roamed the coastlands and the thorns; lions and panthers lurked in the kloofs and among broken ground; elands, hartebeesten, and other antelopes swarmed in the veld; and hippopotami and crocodiles abounded in the rivers.

1891, Robert Russell, “Natal in 1800”, in “Sailors and Natives”, in Natal: The Land and Its Story: A Geography and History for the Use of Schools (with Map), Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis and Sons, page 113:

Here all kinds of animals are found, viz., lions, rhinoceroses, horses (zebras), ostriches and hartebeesten in multitudes, there being always good water and grass here. […] We also saw 13 horses (zebras), 5 rhinoceroses, some ostriches and thousands of hartebeesten. […] A little further on I encountered a herd of hartebeesten, four of which I wounded, though I only secured one, which I laid on one of the oxen.

1897, H[endrik] C[arel] V[os] Leibbrandt, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope, January, 1659–May, 1662. [Abraham van] Riebeeck’s Journal, &c., part III, Cape Town: W[illiam] A[ttwell] Richards & Sons, […], pages 230–231:

A type of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.


guib

The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:

The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.


bontebok

From Afrikaans bontebok, from Dutch bontebok (literally “motley goat”).

der

A South African antelope of genus Damaliscus


reedbuck

Any of several African antelopes of the genus Redunca.


grysbok

From Afrikaans grysbok, from Dutch grijsbok, from grijs (“gray”) + bok (“buck, billy goat”).

A small antelope of genus Raphicerus from South Africa.


korrigum

Damaliscus korrigum korrigum, an antelope of a subspecies of the topi.


Tibetan antelope

en-noun

Tibetan antelope (plural Tibetan antelopes)

Pantholops hodgsonii
Pantholops hodgsonii#Translingual

An endangered species of antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii, endemic to areas of the Tibetan Plateau.


chiru

The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.


jairou

(archaic) An Asian gazelle, the chinkara.


rhebok

rheboks (plural)
reebok (alternative)
rhebuck (alternative)
rehboc (alternative)
rheeboc (alternative)

Borrowed from Afrikaans reebok (“rhebok”), from Dutch reebok (“roebuck”), from Middle Dutch reeboc. Doublet of roebuck.

A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.


roan antelope

A savanna antelope, Hippotragus equinus, found in West, Central, East Africa and Southern Africa.


kleenebok

Borrowed from Dutch kleene bok, obsolete form of kleine bok (“small buck, small antelope”).

A blue duiker a small, active antelope of South Africa (Philantomba monticola).


kokoon

Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:


nagor

From French [Term?], said to have been named by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, from earlier nanguer; compare Nanger.

(archaic) The bohor reedbuck, Redunca redunca.


madoqua

(zoology, obsolete) A small Abyssinian antelope, Salt's dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana)


ourebi

Alternative form of oribi (“type of antelope”) (Ourebia ourebi)


kevel

kevels (plural)
kevil (alternative)
cavel (alternative)
cavil (alternative)

From English dialect kevil, cavel (“rod, pole, a large hammer”), from Middle English kevel, *kavel (“a large stonemason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli, kafli n (“a cylinder, stick, piece of wood”) and Old Norse kefli, kafli m (“a piece cut off, buoy, piece”). Compare Icelandic kefli (“cylinder, a stick, mangle”), and Danish kievle (“a roller”).


guevi

(zoology) Any pygmy antelope of the genus Cephalophus, the duikers, of Africa.


ahu

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.


ahu

On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.


algazel

Borrowed from Arabic الغَزَال (al-ḡazāl)

(obsolete) A gazelle, probably the Arabian gazelle.


prongbuck

Thus the whitetail deer had thrust forward along the very narrow river bottoms into the domain of the mule-deer and the prongbuck among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

1905, Theodore Roosevelt, Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter:


chikara

chikaras (plural)
chinkara (alternative)

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis).


mhorr

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert, Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama.


tetel

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.


chousingha

The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), a small antelope found in open forest in India and Nepal.


lechwe

lechwes (plural)
lechwe (plural)
leche (alternative)

From Tswana [Term?], or from Sotho letsa (“antelope”).

Kobus leche, an African antelope that inhabits marshy regions.


peele

(archaic) A kind of antelope, the rhebok, Pelea capreolus.


alcelaphine

(mammalogy) Any member of the subfamily Alcelaphinae of wildebeest, hartebeest, bonteboks and related species.


sassaby

sassabies (plural)
sassabye (alternative)


sing-sing

The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle; and hardly a flock is seen without having one or two sing-sings along with it.

1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:

[…] the N'samma Antelope, which appears to be the native name in Uganda for the Kobus sing-sing.

1867, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 7:


sing-sing

An annual gathering of tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea in order to share dance, music, and culture.


zeren

From Russian дзерен (dzeren), from Mongolian зээр (zeer).

Only one is strictly Asiatic, Procapra (2), of which one species, P. gutturosa, the zeren, is the type host of Pallas' (1777) Lipoptena antilopes, a ked not seen again for the past 150 years.

1953, Brooklyn Entomological Society, Entomologica Americana, volumes 32-33, page 291:

1993, Lauren S. Bahr, Bernard Johnston, Goat Gazelle, entry in Collier's Encyclopedia, Volume 2, page 285,
There are two species of goat gazelles: the goa, or Tibetan, gazelle, Procapra picticandata, and the zeren, or Mongolian, gazelle, P. gutturosa.

Saigas share part of their home range with the zeren (Procapra gutturosa). These Mongolian antelopes lack the distended nose that characterizes the saiga, but males do develop a similarly curious enlarged throat sac during the mating season.

2010, Paula Hammond, The Atlas of Endangered Animals: Wildlife Under Threat Around the World, page 195:

Procapra gutturosa
Procapra gutturosa#Translingual

The Mongolian gazelle, Procapra gutturosa.


bluebuck

Almost all of these antelope communities have been reduced to scattered remnants by excessive hunting in the past and loss of habitat to agricultural development, but the bluebuck is the only antelope species which has been exterminated.

1989, J. L. Anderson, R. D. Carr, A. J. Hall-Martin, S. C. J. Joubert, M. E. Keep, P. H. Lloyd, S. Vrahimis, “Chapter 10: South Africa”, in Rod East, editor, Antelopes: Southern and South-Central Africa, page 58:

The blaubok, or bluebuck, was an antelope of the same genus as the roan and the sable; it was eliminated before 1800, primarily because the settlers took over the animal's grazing land for their cattle.

1993, Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, page 45:

The bluebuck, or blue antelope, was the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times. Bluebuck numbers began dropping about 2000 years ago and the species was already rare by the 1700s.[…]The last bluebuck was reportedly killed in 1799.

2008, United Nations Environment Programme, Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, page 26:

An extinct mammal, †Hippotragus leucophaeus, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).


Mongolian gazelle

en-noun

Mongolian gazelle (plural Mongolian gazelles)

A medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, as well as some parts of Siberia and China, Procapra gutturosa.


beisa

A species of antelope from East Africa (Oryx beisa, East African oryx)


bastard gemsbok

bastard gemsbok (plural bastard gemsboks)

A calque of Afrikaans bastergemsbok, itself based on similarities between the animal and the gemsbok.

roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus), native to savannas of the central latitudes of Africa.


tsessebe

tsessebes (plural)
sassaby (alternative)
sassabye (alternative)

A large African antelope, Damaliscus lunatus (formerly Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartebeest, but having its horns regularly curved.


dibatag

A medium-sized slender antelope endemic to Ethiopia and Somalia, Ammodorcas clarkei.


addra

The M'horr is found in Western Africa, in the territories of the Sheikh of Wedroow; the Nanguer in Senegal; and the Addra in Nubia and Kerdofon.

1835, Sir William Jardine, The Natural History of the Ruminating Animals:

Almost white, addras lack the black side stripe that is found in most gazelles […]

1965, Leslie Brown, Africa: A Natural History:


springer antelope

springer antelope (plural springer antelopes)

Antidorcas marsupialis
Wikispecies:Antidorcas marsupialis

(archaic) springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis)


Thomson's gazelle

Thomson's gazelle (plural Thomson's gazelles)

Named after the Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson

A gazelle of species Eudorcas thomsonii.


saiga antelope

Any of species Saiga tatarica of antelopes found in the steppes of Central Asia.


tiang

The white-eared kob were joined by hundreds of thousands of mongalla gazelles and tiang, a species of antelope.

2007 June 12, Carl Zimmer, “In Sudan, an Animal Migration to Rival Serengeti”, in New York Times:


bubal

The bubal hartebeest, which is the typical representative of the group with U-shaped horns, is the smallest of all the species, and a native of North Africa, where it is known from the interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, while it formerly extended into Egypt.

1908, Richard Lydekker, The Game Animals of Africa, page 95:

An extinct subspecies of the hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus), which was formerly native to northern Africa.


dama gazelle

A large gazelle native to the Sahara desert (Nanger dama).


royal antelope

The third member of the section is the royal antelope (N. pygmæus) of the Guinea coast, which is the smallest of all the Ruminants, standing only 12 inches at the shoulder.

1894, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History: Mammals:

Any of species Neotragus pygmaeus of antelopes of west Africa, that are the smallest known.


dorcas gazelle

From Latin dorcas from Ancient Greek δορκάς (dorkás) + gazelle.

A gazelle native to northern Africa and western Asia, Gazella dorcas


Speke's gazelle

Speke's gazelle (plural Speke's gazelles)

Named after English explorer John Hanning Speke.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa (Gazella spekei).


Soemmerring's gazelle

Soemmerring's gazelle (plural Soemmerring's gazelles)

Named after German scientist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring.

A species of gazelle from the Horn of Africa, Nanger soemmerringi, formerly Gazella soemmerringi.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
en:Soemmerring's gazelle


kokama

I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.


konze

About 3 P.M. I went out to look for game, and, coming across a herd of zebras and konze antelope, managed to kill two, one of each.

1881, Frederick Courteney Selous, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, page 308:

Among these fertile uplands, where wooded ridge alternates with grassy hollow, the sable and the roan antelopes, the noble eland, the forest-loving kudu, and the konze love to wander, and are but rarely disturbed by the hunter.

1893, The Geographical Journal - Volume 1, page 111:

Hence they got up to the high country and shot a little game, including some konze (Liechtenstein's hartebeest), the first Selous had seen.

1975, John Guille Millais, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., page 113:

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), similar to the hartebeest, but without a black patch on the face and with shorter and flatter horns.


imbabala

A bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), one of two species, ranging more into southern and eastern Africa than the other species, the harnessed bushbuck


tragelaph

Any member of the genus Tragelaphus of spiral-horned antelopes.


goitered gazelle

goitered gazelle (plural goitered gazelles)

A gazelle species found in Central Asia and the Near East (Gazella subgutturosa).


bastard hartebeest

bastard hartebeest (plural bastard hartebeests or bastard hartebeest)

bastard hartebeests (plural)
bastard hartebeest (plural)

We saw a small herd of sassadybies, or bastard hartebeesten, and in getting a long shot at one of them I passed so close to a leopard or panther, that I might have killed it, had I seen it before it escaped.

1871 August 20, [Thomas] Baines, quotee, “Exploration. Exploration and Hunting in South Africa.”, in The Australasian, volume XII, number 323, Melbourne, Vic., published 1872 June 8, page 710, column 3:


sand gazelle

slender-horned gazelle
slender-horned gazelle

slender-horned gazelle, Gazella leptoceros


lesser kudu

lesser kudu (plural lesser kudus or lesser kudu)

lesser kudus (plural)
lesser kudu (plural)

A forest antelope found in East Africa (Tragelaphus imberbis).


mountain nyala

An antelope native to mountain woodlands of central Ethiopia (Tragelaphus buxtoni).


harnessed bushbuck

harnessed bushbuck (plural harnessed bushbucks)

(zoology) The more northern and westernmost of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa (considered a single species by some sources), Tragelaphus scriptus


Cape bushbuck

One of the two bushbuck species of sub-Saharan Africa, the imbabala (Tragelaphus sylvaticus).


tragelaphine

Any such antelopes in the bovid tribe Tragelaphini


hippotragine

en-adj

hippotragine (comparative more hippotragine, superlative most hippotragine)

more hippotragine (comparative)
most hippotragine (superlative)

of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Hippotraginae, the oryxes, roan and sable antelopes, etc.


reduncine

reduncine (comparative more reduncine, superlative most reduncine)

more reduncine (comparative)
most reduncine (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or resembling antelopes in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae, which includes kobs, lechwes, reedbucks, waterbucks, etc.


reduncine

Any such antelope in the bovid subfamily Reduncinae.


cephalophine

Any duiker of the subfamily Cephalophinae


giraffe gazelle

en-noun

giraffe gazelle (plural giraffe gazelles)


greater kudu

A kudu of species Tragelaphus strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa.


reitbuck

Alternative form of reitbok (“reedbuck”)


coastal topi

Damaliscus lunatus topi, a subspecies of topi.


harnessed antelope

harnessed antelope (plural harnessed antelopes)

Any antelope of the genus Tragelaphus, especially the bushbuck.


blue antelope

The blue antelope, (blauwe bock) is really of a blueish colour, but when killed soon loses the velvet-like appearance of its fur.

1777, Georg Forster, A Voyage Round the World, University of Hawai‘i Press, published 2000, page 59:

(now historical) A bluebuck of the extinct species †Hippotragus leucophaeus.


black duiker

Cephalophus niger, a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.


Bangweulu tsessebe

Bangweulu tsessebe (plural Bangweulu tsessebes)

A population and possible taxon of Damaliscus lunatus (topi or sassaby), which are large African antelopes of the grasslands.


zebra duiker

A small striped antelope, of species Cephalophus zebra, found in parts of Africa.


bay duiker

An antelope of species Cephalophus dorsalis, with a prominent black stripe down the center of its back.