guib

English

Alternative forms

  • guiba

Noun

guib (plural guibs)

  1. The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.
    • 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:
      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.

Irish

Noun

guib

  1. obsolete spelling of goib

Mutation

Mutated forms of guib
radical lenition eclipsis
guib ghuib nguib

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Noun

guib m (invariable)

  1. (any of various antelopes with vertical white stripes on the back)
  2. bushbuck, guib, harnessed bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
  3. kéwel
    Synonym: tragelafo striato

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɤp/

Noun

guib m

  1. genitive singular of gob
  2. plural of gob

Mutation

Mutation of guib
radical lenition
guib ghuib

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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