different between antelope vs puku

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu?ku?/
• Hyphenation: pu?ku

Etymology 1

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

1. A small antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii)

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori puku.

Noun

puku (plural pukus)

1. (New Zealand) The belly.
   • 2011, Anahera Gildea, Anita Tipene, Ann French, Huia Short Stories 9: Contemporary Maori Fiction (volume 9)

     He groaned loud with his mouth open. Then he wet himself. And then he rolled over on to his puku.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?puku/, [?puku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: pu?ku

Etymology 1

puk- +? -u

Noun

puku

1. suit, dress
2. attire, outfit
3. (in compounds) changing (of clothes), e.g. in pukukoppi (“changing cubicle”) or pukuhuone (“changing room, locker room”).

Declension

Synonyms

• asu

Derived terms

• pukuilla
• -pukuinen
• puvustaa

Compounds

Related terms

• pukea
• pukeutua

Etymology 2

From Zulu mpuku.

Noun

puku

1. puku (antelope Kobus vardonii)

Declension

Anagrams

• kupu

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese pouco. Cognate with Kabuverdianu poku.

Pronoun

puku

1. few

Ingrian

Noun

puku

1. dress

Italian

Noun

puku m (invariable)

1. puku (Kobus vardonii)

Further reading

• puku in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Maori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k?/

Noun

puku

1. (anatomy) stomach, belly

Northern Sotho

Etymology

Borrowed from English book.

Noun

puku

1. book

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?ku/

Adjective

puku

1. long, elongate

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Tsou

Noun

puku

1. owl