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mouflon

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmuːflɒn/
  • General-American: /ˈmuːflɑn/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːflɒn

1

noun

Meaning 1

A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: moufflon, Ovis musimon

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mountain sheep

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

Across languages

Translations

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: mufloni — sheep
  • Arabic: أُرْوِيَّة (ʔurwiyya) — sheep
  • Basque: mufloi — sheep
  • Belarusian: муфло́н (muflón) — sheep
  • Breton: mouflon — sheep
  • Bulgarian: муфло́н (muflón) — sheep
  • Catalan: mufló — sheep
  • Corsican: muvrinu — sheep
  • Czech: muflon — sheep
  • Danish: muflon — sheep
  • Dutch: moeflon — sheep
  • Esperanto: muflono — sheep
  • Estonian: muflon — sheep
  • Finnish: mufloni — sheep
  • French: mouflon — sheep
  • West-Frisian: moeflon — sheep
  • Friulian: muflon — sheep
  • Galician: muflón — sheep
  • German: Mufflon — sheep
  • Greek: μουφλόν (mouflón) — sheep
  • Hungarian: muflon — sheep
  • Irish: caora mouflon — sheep
  • Italian: muflone — sheep
  • Japanese: ムフロン (mufuron) — sheep
  • Ladin: muflon — sheep
  • Latin: mūsimō — sheep
  • Latvian: muflons — sheep
  • Lithuanian: muflonas — sheep
  • Macedonian: муфлон (muflon) — sheep
  • Maltese: muflun — sheep
  • Norwegian: mufflon — sheep
  • Occitan: moflon — sheep
  • Persian: موک (muk) — sheep
  • Polish: muflon — sheep
  • Portuguese: muflão — sheep
  • Romanian: muflon — sheep
  • Romansh: muflon — sheep
  • Russian: муфло́н (muflón) — sheep
  • Sami: muflon — sheep
  • Sami: meahccesávza — sheep
  • Sardinian: mruvoni — sheep
  • Sardinian: mugra — sheep
  • Sardinian: muva — sheep
  • Sardinian: murgone — sheep
  • Serbo-Croatian: муфлон — sheep
  • Serbo-Croatian: muflon — sheep
  • Slovak: muflón — sheep
  • Slovene: muflon — sheep
  • Lower Sorbian: muflon — sheep
  • Upper Sorbian: muflon — sheep
  • Spanish: muflón — sheep
  • Swedish: mufflon — sheep
  • Turkish: yaban koyunu — sheep
  • Turkish: muflon — sheep
  • Ukrainian: муфлон (muflon) — sheep
  • Welsh: mwfflon — sheep