kudu

See also: kudú, küdu, and kǔdú

English
Kudu (Kruger Park)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Nama kudu-b.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkuːduː/

Noun

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

  1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (the lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (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

Further reading

Estonian

Etymology

Related to Finnish kutu.

Noun

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

  1. spawn

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Hausa

Adverb

kudù

  1. south, southwards

Derived terms
  • kudanci

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
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