kudu

• koodoo (dated)
• koudou (dated)

Ultimately Khoekhoe kudu-b, through Afrikaans koedoe and French koudou.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːduː/

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• Rhymes: -uːduː

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)

1. A large, striped, African antelope of the species Tragelaphus imberbis (lesser kudu) or Tragelaphus strepsiceros (greater kudu).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 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 December 4, Beverley Fearis, The Guardian:

     I watched from a distance as rangers left a kudu carcass to entice the lions to walk through the gates.

• kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• IPA^(key): [ˈkudu]

kudu m anim

1. kudu

Also indeclinable.

From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Related to Finnish kutu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkud̥u/, [ˈkud̥u]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Hyphenation: ku‧du

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)

1. spawn

Declension of kudu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kudu	kudud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kudu
genitive			kudude
partitive		kudu	kudusid
illative		kuttu kudusse	kududesse
inessive		kudus	kududes
elative		kudust	kududest
allative		kudule	kududele
adessive		kudul	kududel
ablative		kudult	kududelt
translative		kuduks	kududeks
terminative		kuduni	kududeni
essive		kuduna	kududena
abessive		kuduta	kududeta
comitative		kuduga	kududega

• kudu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kudu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• IPA^(key): /kú.dù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷʊ́.dɪ̀]

kudù

1. south, southwards

• kudanci

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkudu/ [ˈku.du]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: ku‧du

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese kuḍu (“bud”).

kudu (first-person possessive kuduku, second-person possessive kudumu, third-person possessive kudunya)

1. (obsolete) flower bud

Inherited from Malay کودو (kudu).

kudu (first-person possessive kuduku, second-person possessive kudumu, third-person possessive kudunya)

1. red paint for coloring batik cloth, made from the roots or bark of the mengkudu tree

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦸꦢꦸ (kudu, “must”), from Old Javanese kudu, kĕdö (“set on; at all costs, by any means; unremittingly, insistently, obstinately, unavoidably”).

kudu

1. (colloquial) mandatory

   Synonyms: harus, wajib

• “kudu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kudu

1. Romanization of ꦏꦸꦢꦸ

kudu

1. (intransitive) to be small

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 172

• IPA^(key): [ˈkudu]

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kudu m animal (indeclinable)

1. kudu

• “kudu”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024