duiker
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪkɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪkə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)
- Homophone: diker
Noun edit
duiker (plural duikers)
- Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 65:
- Next day she rose early, and went out with the gun and killed a duiker on the edge of the Big Tobacco Land (where her father had grown tobacco during his season's phase of believing in it).
Derived terms edit
Species of duiker
- Abbott's duiker (Cephalophus spadix)
- Ader's duiker (Cephalophus adersi)
- banded duiker
- bay duiker (Cephalophus dorsalis)
- black duiker (Cephalophus niger)
- black-fronted duiker (Cephalophus nigrifrons)
- blue duiker (Philantomba monticola)
- common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia)
- Brooke's duiker (Cephalophus brookei)
- Harvey's duiker (Cephalophus harveyi)
- Jentink's duiker (Cephalophus jentinki)
- Maxwell's duiker (Philantomba maxwellii)
- Ogilby's duiker (Cephalophus ogilbyi)
- Peters's duiker (Cephalophus callipygus)
- red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus)
- red forest duiker (Cephalophus natalensis)
- Ruwenzori duiker (Cephalophus rubidis)
- Walter's duiker (Philantomba walteri)
- Weyns's duiker (Cephalophus weynsi)
- white-bellied duiker (Cephalophus leucogaster)
- yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus sylvicultor)
- zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra)
Descendants edit
- → Irish: dícear
Translations edit
One of any species of small antelope
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duik + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
duiker (plural duikers)
- diver (a person or thing that dives)
- duiker (a kind of small antelope)
- diver, loon (a kind of shorebird)
Descendants edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duiken (“to dive”) + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
duiker m (plural duikers, diminutive duikertje n, feminine duikster)
- An underwater diver.
- A gymnastic diver.
- A fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
- A loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes
- A duiker, antelope of the subfamily Cephalophinae.
Synonyms edit
- (a gymnastic diver): schoonspringer
- (a culvert): grondzijl, verlaat, zinker
- (a loon): zeeduiker
Hyponyms edit
- (an underwater diver): kikvorsman