dove

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

English

Wikipedia

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 *dʰeubʰ- ‎(“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

• 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 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

• dovish
• 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 Collared Dove (Streptopelia decipiens)
• Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
• 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

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

  Egyptian Arabic: يمامة f ‎(yamāma)

  Moroccan Arabic: حْمامة f ‎(ḥmæma)

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ c ‎(yawnā’)

  Hebrew: יונא c ‎(yawnā’)

• Armenian: աղավնի (hy) ‎(ałavni)
• Aromanian: pãrumbu m, purumbu m, culumbu m
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: palomba f
• Avar: микки ‎(mik̄i)
• Basque: urzo (eu)
• Belarusian: го́луб m ‎(hólub)
• Bengali: ঘুঘু ‎(ghughu)
• Bulgarian: гълъб (bg) m ‎(gǎ̀lǎb)
• Catalan: colom m
• Cebuano: pati
• Chamicuro: pujtuku
• Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴿子 (zh), 鸽子 (zh) ‎(gēzi)

• Cree: omîmîw NA, mîmêw NA
• Czech: holub (cs) m
• Danish: (♂♀) due (da) c, (♂) handue c, (♀) hundue c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: (♂♀) duif (nl) f, m, (♂) doffer (nl) m, (♀) duivin (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolombo
• Estonian: tuvi
• Faroese: dúgva f, dúva f
• Fijian: ruve
• Finnish: kesykyyhky (fi), pulu (fi)
• French: colombe (fr) f, pigeon (fr) m
• Galician: pombo (gl) m
• Georgian: მტრედი ‎(mṭredi)
• German: (♂♀) Taube (de) f, (♂) Tauber (de) m, (♂) Täuber m, (♂) Tauberich m, (♂) Täuberich m, (♀) Täubin f, (diminutive ♂♀) Täubchen n, (diminutive ♂♀) Täublein n
• Greek: περιστέρι (el) n ‎(peristéri), περιστέρα (el) f ‎(peristéra)
• Guaraní: pykasu, jeruti
• Hebrew: יוֹנָה (he) f ‎(yoná)
• Hindi: कपोत (hi) m ‎(kapot)
• Hungarian: galamb (hu)
• Icelandic: dúfa (is) f
• Ido: (♂♀) kolombo (io), (♂) kolombulo, (♀) kolombino
• Igbo: ńdò, àkwụ̀kwụ̀
• Indonesian: merpati (id), burung merpati (id), dara (id), burung dara (id), ketitiran (id)
• Interlingua: columba, pipion
• Irish: colm m, fearán m
• Italian: colomba (it) f, piccione (it) m
• Japanese: 鳩 (ja) ‎(はと, hato)
• Norman: colombe f, coucouroux f

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

  Sorani: کۆتر (ku)

• Latgalian: bolūds
• Latin: columba f
• Latvian: balodis m, dūja f
• Lithuanian: balandis (lt) m, karvelis (lt) m
• Low German: Duuv (nds) f
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: гу́лаб m ‎(gúlab)
• Malay: merpati
• Manx: calmane m
• Mizo: ṭhuro, pàrvâ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (♂♀) due (no) f, m, (♂) hanndue f, m, (♂) duestegg m, (♀) hunndue f, m

  Nynorsk: (♂♀) due f, (♂♀) dua f (variant form), (♂) hanndue f, (♂) duestegg m, (♀) hodue f

• Old English: (unattested except as a feminine proper name Dūfe) dūfe f, culfer f, culufr f, culfre f
• Old Norse: dúfa f
• Persian: فاخته (fa) ‎(fâxta), کبوتر (fa) ‎(kabutar)
• Polish: gołąb (pl) m
• Portuguese: pombo (pt) m, pomba (pt) f
• Quechua: urpi (qu)
• 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)
• 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)
• Tagalog: kalapati
• Tamil: புறா (ta) ‎(puṟā)
• Telugu: పావురం (te) ‎(pāvuraṃ), కపోతం (te) ‎(kapōtaṃ)
• 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), (♂) hipijun (vo), (♀) jipijun (vo), (♂♀ offspring) pijunül (vo), (♂ offspring) hipijunül (vo), (♀ offspring) jipijunül (vo), (diminutive ♂♀) pijunil, (♂) hipijunil, (♀) jipijunil, (diminutive ♂♀ offspring) pijunilül, (♂ offspring) hipijunilül, (♀ offspring) jipijunilül, (obsolete ♂♀) pejin
• Walloon: colon (wa) m, pidjon (wa) m
• Welsh: colomen f
• Yiddish: טויב f ‎(toyb)
• Zazaki: bewran

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US), verb

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Alternative forms

• dived

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 9780307394361)

     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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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 [Term?]. 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]

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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

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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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dovent

Adjective

dove

1. neuter singular of doven