duiker

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”).

Pronunciation

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

Translations

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)

Dutch

Etymology

From duiken (“to dive”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • duiker(file)

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
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