different between addax vs kudu

English

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.daks/

Noun

addax (plural addaxes or addax)

1. A large African antelope (Addax nasomaculatus), with long horns, that lives in the desert. [from 17th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 53:

     In her hand, the haunch of an addax, still hissing from the spit.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

From Latin addax, apparently from an African language.

Noun

addax m (invariable)

1. addax

Related terms

• antilope dalle corna a vite

Latin

Etymology

From an African source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ad.daks/, [?äd??äks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ad.daks/, [??d???ks]

Noun

addax m (genitive addacis); third declension

1. addax

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• p?gargus

References

• addax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• addax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• koodoo (dated)

Etymology

From Khoekhoe kudu-b.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ku?du?/

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

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

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.

Further reading

• kudu in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

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