kudu

• koodoo (dated)
• koudou (dated)

From Khoekhoe kudu-b.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːduː/

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• Rhymes: -uːduː

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (the greater kudu).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 72:

     Martha, on a hot, wet, steamy afternoon, had spent two hours wriggling on her stomach through the undergrowth to reach a point where she might shoot a big koodoo that was grazing in a corner of the Hundred Acres.

   • 2004, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian, 4 December:

     I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.

• kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• IPA^(key): [ˈkudu]

kudu m anim

1. kudu

• Also indeclinable.

From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Related to Finnish kutu.

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)

1. spawn

• kudu in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

• IPA^(key): /kú.dù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷʊ́.dɪ̀]

kudù

1. south, southwards

• kudanci

kudu

1. (intransitive) to be small

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172