different between kudu vs kudo

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

English

Etymology

Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?d??/, /?kju?d??/

Noun

kudo (plural kudos)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) A compliment or praise.
   • 1929 February 18, "Harkness Lampooned"^[1], in Time,

     Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph.D.

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kudo?/, [?kudo?(?)]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: ku?do

Verb

kudo

1. Indicative present connegative form of kutoa.
2. Second person singular imperative present form of kutoa.
3. Second person singular imperative present connegative form of kutoa.

Anagrams

• doku

Ido

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kudo (plural kudi)

1. (anatomy) elbow

Derived terms

• kudigar (“to make an elbow”)

Japanese

Romanization

kudo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Noun

kudo

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuda.

Spanish

Etymology

Japanese ??.

Noun

kudo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) kudo

Hypernyms

• deporte de combate

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish kutu.

Noun

kudo

1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika