kudu

See also: kudú, küdu, and kǔdú

English

Kudu (Kruger Park)

Alternative forms

• koodoo (dated)
• koudou (dated)

Etymology

Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.

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 (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

• kudu berry

 

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkudu]

Noun

kudu m anim

1. kudu

Declension

Also indeclinable.

Declension of kudu (masculine animate in -u)

	singular	plural
nominative	kudu	kuduové
genitive	kudua	kuduů
dative	kuduovi	kuduům
accusative	kudua	kuduy
vocative	kudu	kuduové
locative	kuduovi	kuduech
instrumental	kuduem	kuduy

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkud̥u/, [ˈkud̥u]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Hyphenation: ku‧du

Noun

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)

1. spawn

Declension

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

• 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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

kudù

1. south, southwards

Derived terms

• kudanci

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkudu/ [ˈku.du]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: ku‧du

Adverb

kudu

1. mandatory

Further reading

• “kudu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkudu]

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Noun

kudu m animal (indeclinable)

1. kudu

Further reading

• “kudu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024