kudu

See also: kudú, küdu, and kǔdú

English

Kudu (Kruger Park)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Khoekhoe kudu-b.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkuːduː/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uːduː

Noun

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.

Translations

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkudu]

Noun

kudu m anim

  1. kudu

Declension

  • Also indeclinable.

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)

  1. spawn

Declension

Further reading

  • kudu in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

kudù

  1. south, southwards

Derived terms

  • kudanci

Kambera

Verb

kudu

  1. (intransitive) to be small

References

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