olifant

From Middle English olifaunt, from Old French oliphaunt, from Latin elephantus. See elephant.

olifant (plural olifants)

2. (historical) An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
   • 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 35, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 479:

     And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]

4. (obsolete) An elephant.
   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:

     She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.

• olifant (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “olifant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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From Dutch olifant, from Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊə̯.liˌfant/

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olifant (plural olifante)

1. elephant

From Middle Dutch olifant, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφᾱς (eléphās).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.liˌfɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: oli‧fant

olifant m (plural olifanten, diminutive olifantje n)

1. elephant

• olifantachtige
• slurfdier

• Afrikaans: olifant
• → Papiamentu: olefante, olifant

Inherited from Old French olifan (literally “elephant”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.li.fɑ̃/

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olifant m (plural olifants)

1. olifant (ivory horn)
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     Saskia ouvre les yeux et embouche son olifant pour sonner l’ouverture de la chasse à la manière médiévale.

     Saskia opens her eyes and raises her olifant to her lips to sound the start of the medieval hunt.

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

• olifaunt, oliphant, oliphaunt, olyphant

Old French olifan

olifant (plural olifants)

1. elephant
2. ivory
3. elephant tusk
4. musical instrument made of elephant tusks
5. musical instrument resembling elephant tusks

• English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
• → Cornish: olifans

olifant m (definite singular olifanten, indefinite plural olifanter, definite plural olifantene)

1. oliphaunt

olifant m (definite singular olifanten, indefinite plural olifantar, definite plural olifantane)

1. oliphaunt

olifant oblique singular, m (oblique plural olifanz or olifantz, nominative singular olifanz or olifantz, nominative plural olifant)

1. alternative form of olifan

Borrowed from French olifant.^[1][2][3][4] First attested in 1872.^[5]

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈli.fant/

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• Rhymes: -ifant
• Syllabification: o‧li‧fant

olifant m inan

1. (historical) olifant (an ancient hunting horn, made of ivory)

• olifant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• elefaont

olifant m (plural olifanta)

1. elephant