kudu
English

Kudu (Kruger Park)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkuːduː/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːduː
Noun
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- A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 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 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:
- I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.
Derived terms
Translations
Tragelaphus imberbis or Tragelaphus strepsiceros
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Further reading
kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkudu]
Noun
kudu m anim
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Declension
Also indeclinable. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Related to Finnish kutu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkud̥u/, [ˈkud̥u]
- Rhymes: -udu
- Hyphenation: ku‧du
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- kudu in Sõnaveeb
- M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “kudu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
Hausa
Derived terms
- kudanci
Kambera
References
- Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172
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