different between antelope vs duiker

English

Etymology

From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin ant(h)alopus, from Byzantine Greek ??????? (anthólops).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.t?.l??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.t?.lo?p/

Noun

antelope (plural antelope or antelopes)

1. Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
2. (US) The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
   • 1881, John W. Forney, The New Nobility, page 80

     "It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.

3. (archaic, historical) A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: antalóp
• ? Manx: antelope

Translations

See also

• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Middle English

Alternative forms

• antlop, anteloppe, antyloppe, antlope, antilope, antelop

Etymology

From Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antalopus, from Byzantine Greek ??????? (anthólops)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ant?l??p/, /?ant?l?p/

Noun

antelope (plural antelopes)

1. antelope
2. (heraldry) heraldic antelope

Descendants

• English: antelope
  • ? Irish: antalóp
  • ? Manx: antelope
• Scots: antelope

References

• “antel??pe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Alternative forms

• duyker

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?k?/

Homophone: diker

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d??k?/
• Rhymes: -a?k?(?)

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

Descendants

• ? Irish: dícear

Translations

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duik +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dœi?.k?r/

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)

Descendants

• ? English: duiker
  • ? Irish: dícear

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duiken (“to dive”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dœy?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: dui?ker
• Rhymes: -œy?k?r

Noun

duiker m (plural duikers, diminutive duikertje n, feminine duikster)

1. An underwater diver.
2. A gymnastic diver.
3. A fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
4. A loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes
5. A duiker, antilope of the subfamily Cephalophinae.

Synonyms

• (a gymnastic diver): schoonspringer
• (a culvert): grondzijl, verlaat, zinker
• (a loon): zeeduiker

Hyponyms

• (an underwater diver): kikvorsman

Derived terms

• (a diver): diepzeeduiker
• (a culvert): grondduiker

Related terms

• duik

Descendants

• Afrikaans: duiker
  • ? English: duiker
    • ? Irish: dícear