dove

See also: Dove, dové, dovê, döve, døve, and dov'è

English

rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, be obscure”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow (“dove”), Saterland Frisian Duuwe (“dove”), West Frisian do (“dove”), Dutch duif (“dove, pigeon”), Low German (Low Saxon) Duuv (“dove, pigeon”), German Taube (“dove, pigeon”), Danish due (“dove”), Swedish duva (“dove”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove”), Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (dubo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌv/
• 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. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • Cant. ii. 14

     O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.

Synonyms

• (pigeon): columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

Derived terms

Terms derived from dove

• Adamawa turtle dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha)
• African mourning dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
• American mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
• Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus)
• Carolina turtle dove (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 Creek
• dove of peace

• dovish
• dwarf fruit dove (Ptilinopus nainus)
• eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
• Fischer's fruit dove (Ptilinopus fischeri)
• fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
• 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 collared dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
• mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
• Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)

• rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
• release dove
• ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• rock dove (Columba livia)
• 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 family Columbidae

• Acehnese: mirahpati
• Acholi: akuri
• Albanian: pëllumb (sq) m
• Arabic: يَمَامَة‎‎ f (yamāma), حَمَامَة‎‎ f (hamama)

  Egyptian Arabic: يمامة‎‎ f (yamāma)

  Hijazi Arabic: يَمامة‎‎ f (yamāma)

  Moroccan Arabic: حْمامة‎‎ f (ḥmæma)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: יונא‎‎ c (yawnā’)

  Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ‎‎ c (yawnā’)

• Armenian: աղավնի (hy) (ałavni)
• Aromanian: pãrumbu m, purumbu m, culumbu m
• Assamese: কুপতি (kupoti) (turtle-dove), কপৌ (kopou) (turtle-dove), পাৰ (parô) (pigeon)
• Asturian: palomba f
• Avar: микки (mik̄i)
• Bashkir: күгәрсен (kügärsen)
• Basque: urzo (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: asang
• Belarusian: го́луб m (hólub)
• Bengali: ঘুঘু (ghughu)
• Bulgarian: гълъб (bg) m (gǎ̀lǎb)
• Catalan: colom m
• Cebuano: pati
• Central Melanau: aseang
• Chamicuro: pujtuku
• Cherokee: ᏬᏱ (woyi)
• Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴿子 (zh), 鸽子 (zh) (gēzi)

• Cornish: kolom f
• Cree: omîmîw NA, mîmêw NA
• Czech: holub (cs) m
• Danish: due (da) c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: duif (nl) f, m
• Esperanto: kolombo
• Estonian: tuvi (et)
• Faroese: dúgva f, dúva f
• Fijian: ruve
• Finnish: kyyhky (fi), kyyhkynen (fi), pulu (fi)
• French: colombe (fr) f, pigeon (fr) m
• Galician: pombo (gl) m
• Georgian: მტრედი (mṭredi)
• German: Taube (de) f
• Greek: περιστέρι (el) n (peristéri), περιστέρα (el) f (peristéra)

  Ancient: περιστερά f (peristerá)

• Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti
• Hebrew: יוֹנָה‎‎ (he) f (yoná)
• Hindi: कपोत (hi) m (kapot)
• Hungarian: galamb (hu)
• Iban: achang
• Icelandic: dúfa (is) f
• Ido: kolombo (io)
• Igbo: ńdò, àkwụ̀kwụ̀
• Indonesian: merpati (id), burung merpati (id), dara (id), burung dara (id), ketitiran (id)
• Ingrian: küühkü
• Interlingua: columba, pipion
• Irish: colm m, fearán m
• Italian: colomba (it) f, piccione (it) m
• Japanese: 鳩 (ja) (はと, hato)
• Javanese: dara

• Korean: 비둘기 (ko) (bidulgi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کۆتر‎‎ (ku) (kotir)

• Latgalian: bolūds
• Latin: columba f
• Latvian: balodis m, dūja f
• Lithuanian: balandis (lt) m, karvelis (lt) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Duuv (nds) f

• Luxembourgish: Dauf f
• Macedonian: гу́лаб m (gúlab)
• Malay: merpati
• Manx: calmane m
• Mizo: ṭhuro, pàrvâ
• Mwani: njiwa
• Norman: colombe f, coucouroux f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: due (no) f, m

  Nynorsk: due f, dua f (variant form)

• Occitan: colomba f
• Old English: culfre f, *dūfe f
• Old Norse: dúfa f
• Persian: فاخته‎‎ (fa) (fâxta), کبوتر‎‎ (fa) (kabutar)
• Plautdietsch: Duw f
• Polish: gołąb (pl) m
• Portuguese: pombo (pt) m, pomba (pt) f
• Quechua: urpi (qu), urpai
• Romanian: porumbel (ro) m
• Romansch: columba f
• Russian: го́лубь (ru) m (gólubʹ), голу́бка (ru) f (golúbka), (turtledove or collared dove) го́рлица (ru) f (górlica)
• Samoan: lupe (sm)
• Sanskrit: कपोत (sa) m (kapota)
• Scots: doo
• Scottish Gaelic: calman m, smùdan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: голуб m, голубица f

  Roman: golub (sh) m, golubica (sh) f

• Sicilian: palumma (scn) f, culumma (scn) f
• Slovak: holub (sk) m
• Slovene: golob (sl) m, golobica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gołub m

• Spanish: paloma (es) f, pichón (es) m (dove's chick)
• Swahili: njiwa (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: duva (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalapati
• Tamil: புறா (ta) (puṟā)
• Telugu: పావురం (te) (pāvuraṃ), కపోతం (te) (kapōtaṃ)
• Tibetan: འང་གུ ('ang gu)
• Tupinambá: pykasu
• Turkish: güvercin (tr), (collared dove or laughing dove) kumru (tr)
• Ukrainian: го́луб m (hólub)
• Uyghur: كەپتەر‎‎ (ug) (kepter)
• Vietnamese: bồ câu (vi)
• Vilamovian: taoj
• Volapük: pijun (vo)
• Votic: guľu
• Walloon: colon (wa) m, pidjon (wa) m
• Welsh: colomen f, colomennod f pl
• West Coast Bajau: asang
• Yiddish: טויב‎‎ f (toyb)
• Zazaki: bewran

politics: person favouring conciliation

• Finnish: kyyhky (fi)
• French: colombe (fr) f

• German: Taube (de) f

term of endearment

• Finnish: kyyhkyläinen

• German: Täubchen n

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• dived

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /dəʊv/
• (US) enPR: dōv, IPA^(key): /doʊv/
• Rhymes: -əʊv

• Audio (US), verb

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Verb

dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US and English dialect) Strong simple past tense 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

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

2. (nonstandard) past participle of dive

Usage notes

• See dive for dived vs. dove.

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

dove m, f (plural doven)

1. A deaf person.

Adjective

dove

1. Inflected form of doof

Verb

dove

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams

• voed

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂. Compare Italian doga, Venetian dova, doa, French douve.

Noun

dove f (plural dovis)

1. stave

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin dē ubi, or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdove/, [ˈd̪oː.ve]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction

dove

1. where

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

Derived terms

• laddove

Related terms

• ove

Adverb

dove

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts

   Dove vai? ― Where are you going?

   Dove vivi? ― Whereabouts do you live?

Anagrams

• devo, vedo

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Middle English

Noun

dove

1. Alternative form of douve

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dovent

Adjective

dove

1. neuter singular of doven