dove

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dove"

English

A rock dove (Columba livia)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.?

Proto-Germanic *dūbaną?

Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ

Proto-West Germanic *dūbā

Old English *dūfe

Middle English douve

English dove

Inherited from Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌv/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌv
• Hyphenation: dove

Noun

dove (countable and uncountable, plural doves)

1. (countable) A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:columbid

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77:

     Dove's brains have been prepared by chefs for amorous expectations.

2. (countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

   Synonym: peace dove

   Antonym: hawk

3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:14:

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

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang, countable) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

Derived terms

• Barbary dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• bar-shouldered dove
• beautiful fruit dove
• collared dove
• cuckoo dove, cuckoo-dove
• cushat dove, cushat-dove
• dead dove
• diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
• dovecot, dovecote
• Dove Creek
• dove-eyed
• dove gray, dove grey
• dovehouse
• dovekie
• dovelet
• dovelike
• doveling
• dovely
• dove of peace
• dove orchid
• dove plant (Peristeria elata)
• doveplum
• doveship
• dovetail
• dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
• dove weed
• dovish
• eared dove (Zenaida auriculata)
• Fleet Street dove
• fruit dove, fruit-dove (Ptilinopus)
• Galapagos dove (Zenaida galapagoensis)
• ground dove (Claravinae spp., Phabini spp.)
• Inca dove
• laughing dove
• little brown dove
• lovey-dovey
• moaning dove (Columbina passerina)
• mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
• Nicobar dove
• Pacific dove (Zenaida meloda)
• palm dove
• peaceful dove
• Philippine cuckoo-dove
• quail dove, quail-dove
• rain dove (Zenaida macroura)
• release dove
• ringdove
• ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• ringed dove
• ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria)
• rock dove (Columba livia)
• Samoan dove
• scaled dove
• sea dove
• Senegal dove
• Socorro dove (Zenaida graysoni)
• soiled dove
• stockdove
• stock dove (Columba oenas)
• sucking-dove
• tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria)
• tobacco dove (Columbina passerina)
• tree-dove
• turtledove, turtle-dove, turtle dove
• West Peruvian dove (Zenaida meloda)
• white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica)
• wood dove
• zebra dove (Geopelia striata)
• zenaida dove (Zenaida spp.), especially Zenaida aurita)

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: due (semantic loan)

Translations

bird of the family Columbidae, especially one smaller than a pigeon — see also pigeon

• Acehnese: mirahpati
• Acholi: akuri
• Aklanon: punay
• Albanian: pëllumb (sq) m
• Amharic: ርግብ (rəgb), እርግብ (ʾərgəb)
• Arabic: يَمَام (ar) m (yamām), حَمَام (ar) m (ḥamām)

  Egyptian Arabic: يمامة f (yamāma)

  Hijazi Arabic: يَمامة f (yamāma)

  Moroccan Arabic: حمام m (ḥmām), يمام m (ymām)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: יונא c (yawnā’)

  Syriac: ܝܘܢܐ c (yawnā’)

• Armenian: աղավնի (hy) (aġavni)
• Aromanian: pãrumbu m, purumbu m, culumbu m
• Assamese: কপৌ (kopou) (turtle-dove), কুপতি (kupoti) (turtle-dove), পাৰ (parô) (pigeon)
• Asturian: palombu (ast) m
• Avar: микки (mikki)
• Azerbaijani: göyərçin (az)
• Bangi: ebenga
• Bashkir: күгәрсен (kügərsen)
• Basque: urzo (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: asang
• Belarusian: го́луб (be) m (hólub)
• Bengali: ঘুঘু (bn) (ghughu)
• Bulgarian: гъ́лъб (bg) m (gǎ́lǎb), гълъбица f (gǎlǎbica), гургулица f (gurgulica)
• Catalan: colom (ca) m
• Cebuano: pati
• Central Melanau: aseang
• Chamicuro: pujtuku
• Cherokee: ᏬᏱ (woyi)
• Chichewa: njiwa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白鴿 / 白鸽

  Mandarin: 鴿子 / 鸽子 (zh) (gēzi)

• Chuvash: кӑвакарчӑн (kăvak̬arč̬ăn)
• Cornish: kolom f
• Cree: omîmîw NA, mîmêw NA
• Czech: holub (cs) m, hrdlička (cs) f
• Danish: due (da) c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: duif (nl) f or 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, pomba (gl) f, rula f
• Ge'ez: ርግብ m or f (rəgb)
• Georgian: მტრედი (ka) (mṭredi)
• German: Taube (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌺𐍃 f (ahaks)
• Greek: περιστέρι (el) n (peristéri), περιστέρα (el) f (peristéra)

  Ancient: περιστερά f (peristerá)

• Paraguayan Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} pykasu, ^{(please verify)} jeruti
• Hebrew: יוֹנָה (he) f (yoná)
• Hindi: कपोत (hi) m (kapot), कबूतर (hi) m (kabūtar)
• Hungarian: galamb (hu)
• Iban: achang
• Icelandic: dúfa (is) f
• Ido: kolombo (io)
• Igbo: ńdò, àkwụ̀kwụ̀ (ig)
• Indonesian: merpati (id), burung merpati (id), dara (id), burung dara (id), ketitiran (id)
• Ingrian: kyyhkyläin, tuuvi, golubi
• Interlingua: columba, pipion
• Irish: colm m, fearán m
• Italian: colomba (it) f, piccione (it) m
• Japanese: 鳩 (ja) (はと, hato)
• Javanese: dara (jv)
• Khakas: худай хус (xuday xus)
• Khowar: کَلکور (kalkóor)
• Korean: 비둘기 (ko) (bidulgi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆتر (ckb) (kotir)

• Lao: ນົກເຂົາ (nok khao)
• Latgalian: bolūds
• Latin: columba f, columbus m, turtur m
• Latvian: balodis m, dūja f
• Laz: ტოროჯი (ťoroci)
• Ligurian: cömbo, cónbo, cónba f
• Lingala: ebenga
• Lithuanian: balandis (lt) m, karvelis (lt) m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Duuv (nds) f

• Lü: ᦷᦓᧅᦔᧁᧉ (nokṗaw²)
• Luxembourgish: Dauf f
• Macedonian: гу́лаб (mk) m (gúlab)
• Malagasy: voromailala (mg)
• Malay: merpati (ms)
• Manx: calmane m
• Maori: kukupa
• Middle English: douve, culvere
• Mingrelian: ტორონჯი (ṭoronǯi)
• Mizo: ṭhuro, pàrvâ
• Mwani: njiwa
• Norman: colombe f, coucouroux f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: due (no) f or m

  Nynorsk: due f, dua f (superseded)

• Occitan: colomb (oc) m
• Ojibwe: omiimii anim
• Old English: culfre f, *dūfe f
• Old Norse: dúfa f
• Old Ruthenian: голубь (holubʹ)
• Ottoman Turkish: گوگرجین (güğercin, güvercin)
• 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)
• Sangisari: کوتر (kutar)
• Sanskrit: कपोत (sa) m (kapota)
• Scots: doo
• Scottish Gaelic: calman m, smùdan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: го̏лӯб m, голу̀бица f

  Roman: gȍlūb (sh) m, golùbica (sh) f

• Shan: ၼူၵ်ႉတူႈ (shn) (nṵ̂uk tūu)
• Sicilian: palumma (scn) f, culumma (scn) f
• Slovak: holub (sk) m
• Slovene: golob (sl) m, golobica (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: gołub m

• Southern Altai: кӧгӧрчин (kögörčin)
• Spanish: pichón (es) m, urpi (es) f (Andes), tortolito (es) m (Bolivia), tortolita (es) f (Latin America), totaqui m (Bolivia), urpila (es) f (Bolivia), torcacita (es) f (Andes)
• Swahili: njiwa (sw) class 9/10
• Swedish: duva (sv) c
• Tagalog: kalapati
• Tai Dam: ꪶꪙꪀꪹꪎꪱ (ꞌnộc sau)
• Tamil: புறா (ta) (puṟā)
• Tarifit: adbir m, tmaǧa f
• Telugu: పావురం (te) (pāvuraṁ), కపోతం (te) (kapōtaṁ)
• Thai: นกเขา (th) (nok khao)
• Tibetan: འང་གུ ('ang gu)
• Tigre: እርግብ (ʾərgəb)
• Tigrinya: ርግቢ (rəgbi)
• Tooro: eriiba class 5
• Tupinambá: pykasu
• Turkish: güvercin (tr), kumru (tr) (collared dove or laughing dove)
• Ukrainian: го́луб m (hólub)
• Unami: amimi
• Uyghur: كەپتەر (ug) (kepter)
• Venda: ḽiivha
• Vietnamese: bồ câu (vi)
• Vilamovian: taoj
• Volapük: pijun (vo)
• Votic: gulʹu
• Walloon: colon (wa) m, pidjon (wa) m
• Welsh: colomen f, colomennod f pl
• West Coast Bajau: asang
• Yámana: olamana
• Yiddish: טויב f (toyb)
• Zazaki: bewran

politics: person favouring conciliation

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kyyhky (fi)
• French: colombe (fr) f
• German: Taube (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: due (no) m or f

term of endearment

• Bulgarian: гълъбче n (gǎlǎbče), гълъбичка f (gǎlǎbička), гургуличка f (gurgulička)
• Finnish: kyyhkyläinen (fi)
• German: Täubchen (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: due (no) m or f

• Ukrainian: голу́бчик m (holúbčyk), голу́бка f (holúbka), голу́бочка f (holúbočka)

Etymology 2

A modern 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/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊv

Verb

dove

1. (chiefly Canada, US; dialectal in the UK) 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

     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 usage notes at dive.

References

• “dove”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• devo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoː.və/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: do‧ve

Etymology 1

From doof +‎ -e.

Noun

dove m or f by sense (plural doven, no diminutive)

1. a deaf person

   Synonym: doveman

Derived terms

• doventaal
• doventolk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

dove

1. inflection of doof:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dove

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of doven

Anagrams

• voed

Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

dove f (plural dovis)

1. stave

Italian

Alternative forms

• dov' (acopic, before a vowel or 'h')
• do (Romanesco)

Etymology

From Latin dē ubi (“from where, whence”), or from a strengthening of the older form ove with a prothetic d-. Compare Piedmontese doa, French d'où.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.ve/^°, (traditional) /ˈdo.ve/^*

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ove
• Hyphenation: dó‧ve

Conjunction

dove

1. where

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

Derived terms

• indove
• 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

Middle English

Noun

dove

1. alternative form of douve

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dovent

Adjective

dove

1. neuter singular of doven