kudu
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kudu (plural kudus or kudu)
- A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 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 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:
- I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Tragelaphus imberbis or Tragelaphus strepsiceros
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Further reading[edit]
- kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kudu m anim
Declension[edit]
Also indeclinable.
Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Related to Finnish kutu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)
Declension[edit]
Declension of kudu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kudu | kudud | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | kudu | ||
genitive | 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 |
References[edit]
- kudu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “kudu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Hausa[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
kudù
Derived terms[edit]
Kambera[edit]
Verb[edit]
kudu
- (intransitive) to be small
References[edit]
- Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172
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