different between kuda vs kudu

English

Noun

kuda (plural kudas)

1. The East Indian tapir.

Anagrams

• duka

Blagar

Noun

kuda

1. horse

References

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 161

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Tamil ?????? (kutirai) (compare Malay kuda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.da/

Noun

kuda

1. horse
2. knight (chess)

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese cuidar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kuda.

Verb

kuda

1. to think

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kuda,

• from Tamil ?????? (kutirai).
• from Prakrit gh??a, from Sanskrit ???? (gho?aka), from Proto-Dravidian *kHutt-.

The sense of knight (chess) is a semantic loan from Dutch paard (“knight (chess)”, literally “horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kud?a]
• Hyphenation: ku?da

Noun

kuda (plural kuda-kuda, first-person possessive kudaku, second-person possessive kudamu, third-person possessive kudanya)

1. horse
2. knight (chess)

Derived terms

See also

Verb

kuda

1. ride (a horse)

Further reading

• “kuda” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

kuda

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ???
• Roman: koeda (dated), kudo (nonstandard)

Noun

kuda (kawi kuda)

1. (literary) horse

   Synonyms: jaran, turangga

References

• "kuda" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese cuidar.

Verb

kuda

1. to think

Malay

Etymology

From Tamil ?????? (kutirai).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kud?/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kuda/
• Rhymes: -ud?, -d?, -?

Noun

kuda (Jawi spelling ?????, plural kuda-kuda, informal 1st possessive kudaku, impolite 2nd possessive kudamu, 3rd possessive kudanya)

1. horse
2. knight (chess)

See also

Further reading

• “kuda” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *k?da.

Adverb

kùda (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. which way, in what direction

Conjunction

kùda (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. which way, in what direction

Synonyms

• kamo
• kud

Sundanese

Etymology

From Tamil ?????? (kutirai)

Noun

kuda

1. horse

Tetum

Etymology

From Malay kuda, ultimately Tamil ?????? (kutirai).

Noun

kuda

1. horse

Tiruray

Noun

kuda

1. horse

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