rhebok

• reebok, rhebuck
• rehboc, rheeboc (archaic, given as alternative forms in Webster 1913)

Earlier rabock, reebok, rhebuck, rheeboc, raybuck, rehboc, borrowed from Afrikaans reebok (“rhebok”), ribbok (“rhebok”), from Dutch reebok (“roebuck”), compound of ree +‎ bok, from Middle Dutch reeboc. Unetymological h present since 1775 though the spelling and pronunciation has varied greatly over the years. Doublet of roebuck.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.bɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.bɑk/
• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈriː.bɔk/

rhebok (plural rheboks)

1. A medium-sized, deerlike South African antelope, Pelea capreolus, having pale-gray, curly fur and straight horns.
   • 2011, Rajend Mesthrie, Eish, But is it English?‎^[1], Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN:

     There are also a whole lot of compounds that use 'bok': rhebok, bontebok, blesbok, gemsbok, rietbok, grysbok, bloubok ...

   • 2011, Christopher Upward and George Davidson, The History of English Spelling‎^[2], Wiley, →ISBN, page 274:

     The name of the South African antelope, the rhebok, derives from Dutch reebok, and can be written reebok.

   • 2013, Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold, and Jan Kalina, Mammals of Africa: Volumes I-VI‎^[3], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 417:

     The pronunciation and spelling over the years have changed through roe, rabock, reebok, raybuck to rhebok in English and 'ribbok' in Afrikaans (Skead 1980).

• grey rhebok, grey rhebuck
• peele (obsolete)

• “rhebok”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “rhebok”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “rhebok”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “rhebok”, in Dictionary of South African English, Makhanda, Eastern Cape: Dictionary Unit for South African English, 1996–2026.