Bharalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Hindi भड़ल (bhaṛal).

名詞

bharal (複数形 bharals または bharal)

1. A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).
   • 1955, The Alpine Journal, Volume 60, page 262,

     On the way we disturbed the peace of three bharals and the female of a snow-cock ; the latter, with her brood hardly a week old, rose almost from my feet as I clambered round a rock tower.

   • 1993, Sharad Singh Negi, Kumaun: The Land and the People‎^[1], page 106:

     In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of nothern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.