dove
English
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Etymology 1
From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʌv/
- Rhymes: -ʌv
Audio (US), noun (file)
Noun
dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)
- (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
- (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
- Antonym: hawk
- (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Song of Solomon 2:14:
- O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.
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- A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
- (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).
Synonyms
- (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon
Derived terms
- Adamawa turtle dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha)
- African mourning dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
- American mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- bar-shouldered dove
- beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
- Carolina turtle dove (Zenaida macroura)
- carunculated fruit dove (Ptilinopus granulifrons)
- collared dove
- common ground dove
- crimson-capped fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
- crimson-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
- cuckoo dove
- cuckoo-dove
- cushat dove, cushat-dove
- diamond dove
- dovecot, dovecote
- Dove Creek
- dove-eyed
- dove gray
- dove grey
- dove of peace
- dove plant
- dove tree
- dovish
- dwarf fruit dove (Ptilinopus nainus)
- eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
- Eurasian collared dove
- European turtle dove
- Fischer's fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri)
- Fleet Street dove
- fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
- Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis), Galápagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
- golden fruit dove
- grey-headed fruit dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus)
- ground dove
- Inca dove
- Jambu fruit dove (Ptilinopus jambu)
- laughing dove
- magnificent fruit dove (Ptilinopus magnificus)
- moaning dove
- mourning collared dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
- mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
- oriental turtle dove
- Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)
- peaceful dove
- Philippine cuckoo-dove
- quail-dove
- quail dove
- rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
- red turtle dove
- release dove
- ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- ringed dove
- ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
- rock dove (Columba livia)
- rose-crowned fruit-dove
- ruddy ground dove
- Samoan dove
- scaled dove
- sea dove
- Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni)
- soiled dove
- stock dove
- sucking-dove
- tambourine dove
- tobacco dove
- toll fruit dove
- tree-dove
- turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove
- western turtle dove (Zenaida macroura)
- West Peruvian dove (Zenaida meloda)
- white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica)
- wompoo fruit dove (Ptilinopus magnificus)
- zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
- zenaida dove
- Zenaida dove (Zenaida)
- Zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita)
Descendants
- → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)
Translations
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Etymology 2
A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.
Alternative forms
- dived
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /dəʊv/
- (US) enPR: dōv, IPA(key): /doʊv/
Audio (US), verb (file) - Rhymes: -əʊv
Verb
dove
- (chiefly Canada, US and England dialect) Strong simple past tense of dive
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
- When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.
- 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; →ISBN
- (nonstandard) past participle of dive
Usage notes
- See dive for dived vs. dove.
References
- “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Anagrams
- devo
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdoː.və/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: do‧ve
Etymology 1
From doof.
Noun
dove m or f (plural doven)
- A deaf person.
Derived terms
- doventaal
- doventolk
Adjective
dove
- Inflected form of doof
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dove
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven
Anagrams
- voed
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.
Noun
dove f (plural dovis)
- stave
Italian
Alternative forms
- dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')
Etymology
From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdo.ve/°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/*
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ove
- Hyphenation: dó‧ve
Conjunction
dove
- where
- Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. ― You'll find it where you left it.
Derived terms
- laddove
Related terms
- ove
Adverb
dove
- (interrogative) where, whereabouts
- Dove vai? ― Where are you going?
- Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?
Anagrams
- devo, vedo
Middle English
Noun
dove
- Alternative form of douve
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- dovent
Adjective
dove
- neuter singular of doven
Saraiki
Noun
- ہک پکھُو دا ناں
- ڳیری