duiker

English

Alternative forms

• duyker

Etymology

From Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪkɚ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌɪkə/
• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

1. Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 65:

     Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).

Derived terms

Species of duiker

• Abbott's duiker, Cephalophus spadix
• Ader's duiker, Cephalophus adersi
• bay duiker, Cephalophus dorsalis
• black duiker, Cephalophus niger
• black-fronted duiker, Cephalophus nigrifrons
• blue duiker, Philantomba monticola
• common duiker, Sylvicapra grimmia
• Brooke's duiker, Cephalophus brookei
• Harvey's duiker, Cephalophus harveyi
• Jentink's duiker, Cephalophus jentinki

• Maxwell's duiker, Philantomba maxwellii
• Ogilby's duiker, Cephalophus ogilbyi
• Peters's duiker, Cephalophus callipygus
• red-flanked duiker, Cephalophus rufilatus
• red forest duiker, Cephalophus natalensis
• Ruwenzori duiker, Cephalophus rubidis
• Weyns's duiker, Cephalophus weynsi
• white-bellied duiker, Cephalophus leucogaster
• yellow-backed duiker, Cephalophus sylvicultor
• zebra duiker, Cephalophus zebra

Descendants

• → Irish: dícear

Translations

One of any species of small antelope

• Afrikaans: duiker (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麂羚 (jǐlíng)

• Dutch: duiker (nl) m
• Finnish: sukeltaja-antilooppi
• Galician: cefalofo m, duiquero m
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• Hausa: gada
• Irish: dícear m
• Italian: cefalofo (it) m
• Russian: ду́кер (ru) m (dúker)
• Swahili: paa (sw) class IX/X
• Tswana: phuti
• Vietnamese: linh dương hoẵng, kỉ linh

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch duiker, or by surface analysis, from duik +‎ -er.

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

1. diver (a person or thing that dives)
2. duiker (a kind of small antelope)
3. diver, loon (a kind of shorebird)

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Dutch

Etymology

From duiken (“to dive”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• duiker:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -œy̯kər

Noun

duiker m (plural duikers, diminutive duikertje n)

A small culvert.

1. an underwater diver
2. a gymnastic diver
3. a fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
4. a type of waterbird; a loon (N-Am) or diver (UK)
5. a type of antilope; a duiker

Synonyms

• (an underwater diver): kikvorsman
• (a gymnastic diver): schoonspringer
• (a culvert): grondzijl, verlaat, zinker
• (a loon): zeeduiker

Derived terms

• (a diver): diepzeeduiker
• (a culvert): grondduiker

Related terms

• duik