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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Plants & animals · Common

gacela

gazelleantílope pequeño y ágil

Comes from Arabic

غَزَالَة

ghazāla

“gazelle (female)”«gacela (hembra)»

Arabic today says

غَزَال

ghazāl

And it still does

Root

غ ز ل

gh-z-l

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

The Arabic gh, a sound like the French r, stayed as g. In Arabic poetry the gazelle is the image of the beloved.La gh árabe, un sonido parecido a la r francesa, se quedó en g. En la poesía árabe la gacela es la imagen de la amada.

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