markhor

English

Etymology
A markhor

From Hindi मारख़ोर (mārxor) and Urdu مارخور‎ (mārxor), from Persian مارخور‎ (mârxor) (lit. snake-eater), from مار‎ (mâr, “snake”) + خور‎ (xor), present stem of verb خوردن‎ (khordan, “to eat”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɔː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɔɹ/

Noun

markhor (plural markhors)

  1. A large wild goat, Capra falconeri, found in the western Himalayas.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, page 69:
      He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuff-mull presented by the last CO […]

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