blesbok
English
Noun
blesbok (plural blesboks)
- Alternative form of blesbuck.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her.
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
blesbok (plural blesbokke)
Descendants
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛs.bɔk/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: bles‧bok
Noun
blesbok m (plural blesbokken, diminutive blesbokje n)
- blesbuck, Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi [from early 19th c.]
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Afrikaans blesbok.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblɛz.bok/
- Rhymes: -ɛzbok
- Hyphenation: blè‧sbok
Noun
blesbok m (invariable)
Further reading
- blesbok in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana