deer

English

Wikipedia

A deer (1)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪə(ɹ), SAMPA: /dI@(r)
• (US) enPR: dîr, IPA: /dɪɹ/, SAMPA: /dIr

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
• Homophone: dear

Etymology

From Middle English der (“small animal, deer”), from Old English dēor (“animal”), from Proto-Germanic *deuzan, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeusóm ‘living thing’ (compare Albanian dash ‘ram’, Lithuanian pl. daũsos ‘upper air; heaven’), from *dʰeus- ‘breath’ (compare Lithuanian dùsti ‘to sigh’, Russian душа (dušá) ‘breath, spirit’), full-grade derivative of *dʰu̯ésmi (compare Lithuanian dvėsti ‘to breathe, exhale’, Russian dvochat' ‘to cough’, Sanskrit dhvaṁsati ‘he falls to dust’). For semantic development compare Latin animalis ‘animal’, from anima ‘breath, spirit’.

Noun

deer (plural deer or dated and rare, deers)

Wikipedia

1. (zoology) a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla

   I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.

2. The meat of such an animal

   Oh I've never had deer before.

3. (archaic) Any animal, especially a mammal.

   But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year. -Shakespeare, King Lear. Act III. Sc. IV.

Synonyms

• buck, stag (male deer)
• doe (female deer)
• fawn (young deer)
• hart (adult deer)
• venison (deer meat)

Derived terms

• deerfly
• white-tailed deer

Translations

the animal

Afrikaans: takbok (af) Ainu: ユㇰ (yuk) Albanian: dre m., sutë f., drenushë f., sorkadhe f. Ancient Greek: ἔλαφος m. and f. Arabic: أيّل (ar) (’áyyil) m. Armenian: եղջերու (hy) (eġǰeru) (male), եղնիկ (hy) (eġnik) (female) Aymara: taruka Basque: orein Belarusian: алень (be) (alén’) m. Bengali: হরিণ (bn) (hariṇ) Bosnian: jelen m., košuta f., lane n. Breton: karv f. kirvi pl. Bulgarian: елен (bg) (elen) m. Catalan: cérvol (ca) m. Cherokee: ᎠᏫ (awi) Chinese: Mandarin: 鹿 (cmn) (lù) Croatian: jelen (hr) m. Czech: jelen (cs) m., laň (cs) f. Danish: hjort (da) Dutch: hert (nl) n. Esperanto: cervo (eo) Estonian: hirv (et) Ewe: zi n. Faroese: hjørtur (fo) Finnish: hirvieläin (fi), hirvi (fi) French: cerf (fr) m., chevreuil (fr) m. Friulian: cierf Galician: cervo German: Hirsch (de) m. Greek: ελάφι (eláfi) n., ζαρκάδι (zarkáði) n., δορκάδα (ðorkáða) (Gazella dorcas) f., άλκη (álci) (Cervus elaphus) f. Guaraní: guasu Hebrew: איל (he) (ayal) m. Hindi: हिरन (hi) (hiran), हरिण (hi) (hariṇ) Hopi: sowiʼyngwa Hungarian: szarvas (hu) Icelandic: hjörtur (is) (krónhjörtur (is)) Indonesian: kijang, rusa, menjangan Ineseño: wɨ Interlingua: cervo Irish: fia, fia rua, os (ga) m. Italian: cervo (it) m., alce (it) f., renna (it) f., daino (it) m., capriolo (it) m. Japanese: 鹿 (ja) (しか, shika), シカ (ja) (shika) Korean: 사슴 (ko) (saseum) Kurdish: ئاسک Ladin: cerf Lao: ຟານ (lo) (faan) Latin: ceruus (la), cervus (la) m., cerva (la) f. Latvian: briedis (lv) Lithuanian: elnias m., elnė f. Luxembourgish: Hirsch (lb) m.

Macedonian: елен (mk) (elen) m. Malayalam: മാൻ Maltese: ċerf (ċerf l-aħmar) Mapudungun: wemül Maricopa: qwaq Mi'kmaq: lentuk Mongolian: буга (mn) (buga) Nahuatl: mazatl Navajo: bįįh Norwegian: hjort (no) O'odham: sihki Occitan: cèrvi Old Church Slavonic: ѥлєнь (jelenĭ) m. Old French: cerf m. Old Irish: fíad Persian: گوزن (fa) (gavazn) Polish: jeleń (pl) m. Portuguese: veado (pt) m., cervo (pt) m. Quechua: taruka (Bolivia); taruca (Ecuador) Rohingya: hórin Romani: cherbo m. Romanian: cerb (ro) m., ciută (ro) f., căprioară (ro) Romansch: tschierv Russian: олень (ru) (olén’) m. Sami: ruksesgoddi Sanskrit: मृग (sa) (mṛga-) Sardinian: crebu, crefu, cherbu, chervu Scottish Gaelic: fiadh Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јелен (sh) m. Roman: jelen (sh) m. Sicilian: cervu (scn) m. Sindarin: aras` Slovak: jeleň (sk) m. Slovene: jelen (sl) m., košuta (sl) f. Spanish: ciervo (es) m., (Latin America) venado (es) m. Swahili: kulungu (sw) Swedish: hjort (sv), hjortdjur (sv) n. Tai Dam: quang Taos: pę́na Telugu: జింక (jimka) Thai: กวาง (th) (kwaang) Turkish: geyik (tr) Turkmen: sugun Ukrainian: олень (uk) (olén’) m. Urdu: ہرن (ur) (hiran) Vietnamese: hươu (vi), nai (vi) Volapük: (male or female) stäg (vo), (male) histäg (vo), (female) jistäg (vo), (offspring, young) stägül (vo) Welsh: carw (cy), hydd (cy) m. West Frisian: hart

meat from the animal

Ainu: ユㇰハル (yukharu) Basque: oreinki (eu) Chinese: Mandarin: 鹿肉 (cmn) (lùròu) Finnish: hirvi, hirvenliha, peura, peuranliha, kauris, kauriinliha, poro, poronliha

Greek: ελάφι (el) n. Russian: оленина (ru) (olenína) m. Swahili: nyama ya kulungu (sw) Swedish: hjortkött (sv) n. Volapük: stägamit (vo)

Anagrams

• dere, de re
• dree
• rede
• reed, Reed

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eːr

Verb

deer

1. first-person singular present indicative of deren.
2. imperative of deren.

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Limburgish

Etymology

From Germanic *deuzom, from Indo-European *dheusom. Cognate with English deer (Old English dēor), Dutch dier, German Tier, Swedish djur; and with Lithuanian dvēsti, Russian душа (dušá).

Noun

deer n.

1. pet
2. (obsolete) beast, animal

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	deer	deer	deerke	deerkes
Genitive	deers	deer	deerkes	deerkes
Locative	daer	daer	daerke	daerkes
Dative¹	daerem	daerer	?	?
Accusative¹	deer	?	deerke	deerkes

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.