audad

Updated: May 23, 2026

Cheetah is from some East Indian tongue, as is tahr, the name of the wild goat of the Himalayas. Gnu is from the Hottentots, and giraffe from the Arabic zaraf. Aoudad, the Barbary wild sheep, is the French form of the Moorish name audad.

William Beebe - The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year