different between kudu vs oryx

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

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ???? (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).

Noun

oryx (plural oryxes or oryx or (rare) oryges)

1. Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns

Related terms

• orygine

Synonyms

• sabre antelope

Translations

Anagrams

• Roxy

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (órux), the antelope probably being named after the sharp iron digging tools with the same name, because of the shape of its horns.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.ryks/, [????ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.riks/, [????iks]

Noun

oryx m (genitive orygis); third declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild goat
3. wild bull or ox

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• oryx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oryx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oryx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• oryx in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• oryx in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly