Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

gunga

English translation:

gunga (Angolan), common eland

Added to glossary by Fernando Domeniconi
Sep 12, 2007 17:01
16 yrs ago
Portuguese term

gunge

Portuguese to English Science Zoology African fauna
Some type of Angolan big game.

"André XXX, o matador profissional mais feroz de espécies em extinção ou não (4 gunge, 3 pacaças, 14 onças..."
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 gunga
Change log

Sep 13, 2007 12:31: Fernando Domeniconi changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/8025">lexical's</a> old entry - "gunga"" to ""gunga (Angolan), eland""

Proposed translations

+4
1 hr
Selected

gunga

Continuo acreditando ser um typo para gunga, mas a referência continha um erro:

... o elande ou gunga comum é o maior antílope africano. Tal não o impede, ... O nome científico da espécie – Taurotragus oryx – tem na sua origem tauros ...
www.badoca.com/?path=/Portugu�s/Os Animais/Animais do Safari/...

Tragelaphus scriptus) the Gunga (Taurotragus orus), Olongo or Kudu. (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), Cabra do mato (Cephalopuhus dorsalis; Sylvicapra ...
www.fao.org/AG/AGAInfo/programmes/en/genetics/documents/Int...

Centro Angolano de Altos Estudos InternacionaisThis park has a wealth of fauna to offer the tourist: elephants, gunga, pacaça (water buffalo), nunces, golungo, wild boar, monkeys, red palanca, deer, ...
www.caaei.org/bengo.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Clauwolf
23 mins
Obrigado, Clauwolf!
agree Muriel Vasconcellos
1 hr
Obrigado, Muriel!
agree Rachel Fell : but Taurotragus oryx, usu. known as Common Eland - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Eland http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/Y1515B/y1515b17.htm
14 hrs
Yes, agree. Thank you, Rachel!
agree Paula Vaz-Carreiro
17 hrs
Obrigado, Paula!
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