roebuck

See also: Roebuck

English

Etymology

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe +‎ buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/
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Noun

roebuck (plural roebucks)

A male roe deer.
- 1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:
  From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
  The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]

Derived terms

roebuck-berry

Translations

male roe deer

Albanian: sorkadh (sq) m, kaproll (sq) m
Arabic: يَحْمُور (yaḥmūr)
Asturian: corciu (ast)
Bulgarian: сръндак m (srǎndak)
Czech: srnec (cs) m
Dutch: reebok (nl) m
Finnish: metsäkaurisuros
French: cerf (fr) m (du chevreuil)
Friulian: cjavrûl m
German: Rehbock (de) m
Irish: ruaphoc m
Italian: capriolo (it) m
Maori: ropaka
Middle English: roobukke
Polish: kozioł (pl) m anim, rogacz (pl) m anim
Portuguese: corço (pt) m
Romanian: căprior (ro) m
Russian: саме́ц косу́ли m (saméc kosúli)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: срндаћ m

Roman: srndać m
Slovene: srnjak m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: sarnik m
Spanish: ciervo (es) m (del corzo)
Swedish: råbock (sv)
Welsh: caeriwrch m

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