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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

Alternative forms

• wudu'
• wudhu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ??????? (wu???).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wu?du?/, /?w?du?/

Noun

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
2. (Islam) the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

Synonyms

• abdest

Coordinate terms

• ghusl

Translations

Borôro

Verb

wudu

1. to fall

Old English

Alternative forms

• widu, wiodu, wudo

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wid?u- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr (Danish and Swedish ved). The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid (Welsh gwydd, Breton gwez).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wu.du/

Noun

wudu m

1. wood

   Synonym: tr?ow

2. forest, woods

   Synonyms: fyrhþ, holt, tr?ow, weald

3. tree

   Synonyms: b?am, tr?ow

Declension

Derived terms

• wuduweard (“forester”)

Descendants

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

See also

• triewen (“wooden”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vu.du/

Noun

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of voodoo.

Further reading

• wudu in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• wudu in Polish dictionaries at PWN