different between gazelle vs gabelle

English

Alternative forms

• gazel (archaic)

Etymology

From French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic ??????? (?az?l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?l/

Noun

gazelle (plural gazelles or gazelle)

1. An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• gazelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gazella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a??z?.l?/
• Hyphenation: ga?zel?le

Noun

gazelle f (plural gazellen, diminutive gazelletje n)

1. gazelle, mammal of the tribe Antilopini

French

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?az?l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.z?l/

Noun

gazelle f (plural gazelles)

1. gazelle

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• allégez

English

Etymology

From French gabelle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?b?l/

Noun

gabelle (plural gabelles)

1. A tax; especially, the tax on salt levied in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 1998, William Caferro, Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena, p. 150:

     The proceeds of the gabelle on retail wine were pledged directly to repayment of the forced loans imposed during Baumgarten and Sterz's raid in 1364.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 143:

     Salt, for example, was a state monopoly, and the tax on it – the much-detested gabelle – was levied at six different levels in the various regions […]

Anagrams

• gelable, legable

French

Etymology

From Italian gabella, from Arabic ????????? (qab?la, “bail, guaranty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.b?l/

Noun

gabelle f (plural gabelles)

1. (historical) gabelle, salt tax

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Noun

gabelle f

1. plural of gabella