dove

See also Dove, dov'è, and dové

English

Wikipedia

rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dúfa, from Germanic, probably originally imitative of the bird's call, akin to Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (dubo). Cognate with Danish due, Dutch duif, German Taube.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʌv/, SAMPA: /dVv/
• Rhymes: -ʌv

• Audio (US), noun

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Noun

dove (plural doves)

1. 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.
2. (politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict (as opposed to hawk).
3. (engineering) Dove, a engineering reference point in a computer program that will cause some type of default action to occur.

Synonyms

• columbid
• columbiform
• culver
• pigeon

Derived terms

Terms derived from dove

African Mourning Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) Adamawa Turtle Dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha) American Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Barbary Dove (Streptopelia risoria) Beautiful Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus) Carolina Turtledove (Zenaida macroura) Carunculated Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus granulifrons) Crimson-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus) Crimson-crowned Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus) cushat dove, cushat-dove diamond dove dovecot, dovecote dove of peace Dwarf Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus naina) Eared Dove (Zenaida auriculata)

Fischer's fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri) fruit dove, fruit-dove Galapagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis), Galápagos Dove (Zenaida galapagoensis) Grey-headed Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus hyogastrus) ground dove Jambu Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus jambu) Magnificent Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus magnificus) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Mourning Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) Rain Dove (Zenaida macroura)

release dove Ring Dove (Streptopelia risoria) Ringneck Dove (Streptopelia risoria) rock dove Socorro Dove (Zenaida graysoni) 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) Zenaida dove (Zenaida) Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita)

Translations

bird of the (pigeon and dove) family Columbidae

Acholi: akuri Albanian: pëllumb (sq) m. Arabic: حمامة (ar) (Hamaama) f. Aramaic: Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ (yawnā’) c. Hebrew: יונא (yawnā’) c. Armenian: աղավնի (hy) (aġavni) Asturian: palomba (ast) f. Basque: urzo (eu) Belarusian: голуб (be) (hólub) m. Bengali: ঘুঘু (bn) (ghughu) Bosnian: golub (bs) m., golubica (bs) f. Bulgarian: гълъб (bg) (gǎ̀lǎb) m. Catalan: colom m. Cebuano: pati Chamicuro: pujtuku Chinese: Mandarin: 鴿子 (zh), 鸽子 (zh) (gēzi) Cree: omîmîw (cr) NA, mîmêw (cr) NA Croatian: golub (hr) m., golubica (hr) f. Czech: holub (cs) m. Danish: due (da) c. Dutch: duif (nl) f. Esperanto: kolombo (eo) Estonian: tuvi (et) Fijian: ruve Finnish: kyyhky (fi), pulu (fi) French: colombe (fr) f. Georgian: მტრედი (ka) (mtredi) German: Taube (de) f. Greek: περιστέρι n. (peristéri) Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti Hebrew: יונה (yoná) f. Hindi: कपोत (kapot) Hungarian: galamb (hu) Icelandic: dúfa (is) f.

Ido: kolombo Indonesian: merpati, burung merpati, dara, burung dara, ketitiran Interlingua: columba, pipion Irish: colm (ga) m., fearán (ga) m. Italian: colomba (it) f., piccione (it) m. Japanese: 鳩 (ja) (はと, hato) Korean: 비둘기 (ko) (bidulgi) Kurdish: کۆتر Latin: columba (la) f. Latvian: balodis (lv) m., dūja (lv) f. Low German: Duuv (nds) f. Norwegian: due (no) m. and f. Old English: dūfe (unattested except as a feminine proper name) f., culfer f. Persian: فاخته (fa) (fâxta), کبوتر (fa) Polish: gołąb (pl) m. Portuguese: pombo (pt) m., pomba (pt) f. Romanian: porumbel (ro) m. Romansch: columba (rm) f. Russian: голубь (ru) (gólub’) m. Samoan: lupe (sm) Scottish Gaelic: calman m., smùdan m. Serbian: Cyrillic: голуб m., голубица f. Roman: golub m., golubica f. Sicilian: palumma (scn) f. Slovene: golob (sl) m., golobica (sl) f. Spanish: paloma f., pichón m. (dove's chick) Swedish: duva (sv) Tagalog: kalapati Telugu: పావురం (paavuram), కపోతం (kapoatham) Tupinambá: pykasu Turkish: güvercin (tr) Ukrainian: голуб (uk) (hólub) m. Uyghur: كەپتەر (ug) Welsh: colomen (cy) f. Yiddish: טױב (toyb)

Etymology 2

A modern dialectal formation of the strong declension, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: dōv, IPA: /dəʊv/, SAMPA: /d@Uv/
• (US) enPR: dōv, IPA: /doʊv/, SAMPA: /doUv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

• Audio (US), verb

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Alternative forms

• dived

Verb

dove

1. (chiefly North America and English dialect) Strong-declension simple past 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 9780307394361)

     When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

Usage notes

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

Translations

• Finnish: sukelsi (fi)
• French: plongea (fr)
• Indonesian: terjun
• Italian: tuffò (it)
• Japanese: 潜った (もぐった, mogutta) (?)

References

• “dove” listed as a North American and English dialectal past tense form of “dive, v.”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

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Dutch

Noun

dove m. and f. (plural doven)

1. A deaf person.

Adjective

dove

1. The inflected form^FAQ of doof.

Verb

dove

1. singular present subjunctive of doven.

Anagrams

• voed

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Italian

Etymology

From Italian de + ove.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈdove]

• Audio

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Conjunction

dove

1. where

   Lo troverai dove l'hai lasciato. — You'll find it where you left it.

Adverb

dove

1. (interrogative) where

   Dove vai? - Where are you going?

Anagrams

• devo, vedo