kudu

kudu

See also: kudú, küdu, and kǔdú

English

Kudu (Kruger Park)

Alternative forms

• koodoo (dated)

Etymology

From Khoekhoe kudu-b.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːduː/

• Audio (southern England)

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• 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

Tragelaphus imberbis or Tragelaphus strepsiceros

Afrikaans: koedoe (af) Bulgarian: куду n (kudu) Dutch: koedoe (nl) German: Kudu m Italian: cudù (it) m, kudu m Nandi: solgoi Navajo: jádítsoh Portuguese: cudo (pt) m, goma (pt) f (Mozambique), olongo m (Angola) Romanian: kudu (ro) m Shona: nhoro Spanish: kudú Swahili: tandala Swazi: lishongololo Tagalog: kudu Xhosa: iqhude Zulu: umgankla

Further reading

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

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Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)

1. spawn

Declension

Inflection of kudu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	kudu	kudud
accusative	kudu	kudud
genitive	kudu	kudude
partitive	kudu	kudusid
illative	kuttu kudusse	kududesse
inessive	kudus	kududes
elative	kudust	kududest
allative	kudule	kududele
adessive	kudul	kududel
ablative	kudult	kududelt
translative	kuduks	kududeks
terminative	kuduni	kududeni
essive	kuduna	kududena
abessive	kuduta	kududeta
comitative	kuduga	kududega

Further reading

• kudu in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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Hausa

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

kudù

1. south, southwards

Derived terms

• kudanci

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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