mouflon

English

A mouflon

Alternative forms

moufflon

Etymology

Borrowed from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765-75.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɒn/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/

Noun

mouflon (plural mouflons)

A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. [from c. 1770]

Translations

sheep

Albanian: mufloni
Basque: mufloi
Belarusian: муфлон (muflón)
Breton: mouflon
Bulgarian: муфлон (muflon)
Catalan: mufló
Corsican: muvrinu
Czech: muflon (cs)
Danish: muflon
Dutch: moeflon (nl) m
Esperanto: muflono
Estonian: muflon
Finnish: mufloni (fi)
French: mouflon (fr) m
Friulian: muflon
Galician: muflón
German: Mufflon m
Greek: μουφλόν (el) (mouflón)
Hungarian: muflon (hu)
Irish: caora mouflon f
Italian: muflone (it) m
Japanese: ムフロン (ja) (mufuron)
Ladin: muflon
Latin: mūsimō m
Latvian: muflons
Lithuanian: muflonas (lt)

Lower Sorbian: muflon
Macedonian: муфлон (muflon)
Maltese: muflun
Navajo: tó wónaanídę́ę́ʼ dibé ałchiní
Norwegian: mufflon
Occitan: moflon (oc)
Persian: موک‎ (fa) (muk)
Polish: muflon (pl)
Portuguese: muflão (pt) m
Romanian: muflon (ro) m
Romansch: muflon
Russian: муфло́н (ru) (muflón)
Sami: muflon, meahccesávza
Sardinian: mruvoni, mugra, muva, murgone
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic spelling: муфлон

Roman spelling: muflon (sh)
Slovak: muflón
Slovene: muflon (sl)
Spanish: muflón m
Swedish: mufflon
Turkish: yaban koyunu (tr), muflon (tr)
Ukrainian: муфлон (muflon)
Upper Sorbian: muflon
Welsh: mwfflon
West Frisian: moeflon

Anagrams

moonful

French

Etymology

From Italian muflone

Noun

mouflon m (plural mouflons)

mouflon

Further reading

“mouflon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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