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guib

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English

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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guib (plural guibs)

  1. The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.
    • 1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history:
      The guib is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.

Irish

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Noun

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guib

  1. Obsolete spelling of goib.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of guib
radical lenition eclipsis
guib ghuib nguib

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

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Noun

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guib m (invariable)

  1. (any of various antelopes with vertical white stripes on the back)
  2. bushbuck, guib, harnessed bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
  3. kéwel
    Synonym: tragelafo striato

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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guib m

  1. genitive singular of gob
  2. plural of gob

Mutation

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Mutation of guib
radical lenition
guib ghuib

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.