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gazelle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ɡəˈzɛl/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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.
   • “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan. 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 26:

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Deriveds

giraffe gazelle · Neumann's gazelle · Mongolian gazelle · gazellelike · dorcas gazelle · Arabian gazelle · Cuvier's gazelle · true gazelle · Palestine mountain gazelle · black-tailed gazelle · mountain gazelle · Tibetan gazelle · rhim gazelle · Arabian sand gazelle · ariel gazelle · slender-horned gazelle · sand gazelle · Indian gazelle · Speke's gazelle · dama gazelle · Robert's gazelle · Soemmerring's gazelle · red-fronted gazelle · addra gazelle · gazelle on the lawn · goitered gazelle · Thomson's gazelle · Waller's gazelle · gazelle in the garden · Clarke's gazelle · Przewalski's gazelle · Grant's gazelle · Erlanger's gazelle · Eritrean gazelle · Mongalla gazelle · Heuglin's gazelle · mhorr gazelle

Translations (76)

kn ಗಸೆಲ್ (antelope) · sq gazelë (antelope) · uk газель (antelope) · la dorcas (antelope) · yo àgbọ̀nrín (antelope) · wo kéwél gi (antelope) · ka ქურციკი (antelope) · kw gavrewik (antelope) · hu gazella (antelope) · aa simbilqá (antelope) · mn зээр (antelope) · eo gazelo (antelope) · hy վիթ (antelope) · ckb ئاسک (antelope) · mk газела (antelope) · ro gazelă (antelope) · fi gaselli (antelope) · eu gazela (antelope) · sh газела (antelope) · tr ceylan (antelope) · th ละมั่ง (antelope) · az ceyran (antelope) · sh gazela (antelope) · uga 𐎑𐎁𐎊 (antelope) · kmr xezal (antelope) · br gazelenn (antelope) · egy g-H-s-E29 (antelope) · ga gasail (antelope) · es gacela (antelope) · vi linh dương (antelope) · gu ગઝેલ (antelope) · cmn 瞪羚 (antelope) · arz غزال (antelope) · la oryx (antelope) · ee sẽ (antelope) · zza ğezal (antelope) · he צבי (antelope) · fa آهو (antelope) · nb gasell (antelope) · txb yal (antelope) · tl gasela (antelope) · ca gasela (antelope) · sk gazela (antelope) · fa غزال (antelope) · sw swara (antelope) · ln mbólókó (antelope) · sv gasell (antelope) · ko 가젤 (antelope) · grc δορκάς (antelope) · it gazzella (antelope) · da gazelle (antelope) · pt gazela (antelope) · mi kahera (antelope) · ar غَزَال (antelope) · de Gazelle (antelope) · gd gasail (antelope) · vo gasal (antelope) · mt għażżiel (antelope) · ru газе́ль (antelope) · ar ظَبِي (antelope) · cy gafrewig (antelope) · pl gazela (antelope) · arc טַבְיָא (antelope) · ja ガゼル (antelope) · ta விண்மீன் (antelope) · cs gazela (antelope) · te గజెల్ (antelope) · sw swala (antelope) · bg газела (antelope) · syc ܛܒܝܐ (antelope) · am ጋዚል (antelope) · nl gazelle (antelope) · el γαζέλα (antelope) · gv gaselle (antelope) · fr gazelle (antelope) · nn gasell (antelope)

gazelle en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• /ɡəˈzɛl/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (figuratively, intransitive) To leap like a gazelle.
   • And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazelling again. 1917, Marion Hill, chapter 2, in McAllister’s Grove, page 21:
   • When I started off [spacewalking] I didn’t run straight away—I started at a fairly fast walk, three or four miles an hour—but by the end I was jogging, well, gazelling, at almost six miles an hour. 2014, Bob McDonald, Canadian Spacewalkers: Hadfield, MacLean and Williams Remember the Ultimate High Adventure, page 172:
   • The biplane gazelled into the air. 1982, J. G. Ballard, “Memories of the Space Age”, in Memories of the Space Age, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, published 1988, page 151:
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To go fast; to speed; to rush.
   • I actually heard the air move as about five people gazelled towards Lord Mandelson to try to stop another of his ill-timed leaks. 2017, Eddie Mair, A Good Face for Radio: Confessions of a Radio Head, pages 10-11:
   • Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […] 1990, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge, page 90:

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