kudu

See also: kudú, küdu, and kǔdú

English

Kudu (Kruger Park)

Alternative forms

• koodoo (dated)

Etymology

From Khoekhoe kudu-b.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːduː/

Noun

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species (the lesser kudu) or (the greater kudu).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 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, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian, 4 December:

     I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.

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
• Navajo: jádítsoh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: cudo (pt) m, goma (pt) f (Mozambique), olongo m (Angola)
• Romanian: kudu (ro) m
• Spanish: kudú
• Swahili: tandala
• Tagalog: kudu

Further reading

• kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Related to Finnish kutu.

Noun

kudu (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. spawn

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Hausa

Adverb

kudù

1. south, southwards

Derived terms

• kudanci

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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