dodo
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain. Perhaps from obsolete Portuguese doudo (“fool, simpleton, silly, stupid”) or Dutch dodaars. First attested in the 17th century.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊdəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊdəʊ
- Hyphenation: do‧do
Noun edit
- A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
- 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter XLI, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, pages 133–134:
- In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]
- 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter IX, in The Voyage of the Beagle[1]:
- Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
- (golf) A hole in one.
- 2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253:
- "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).
Noun edit
dodo (uncountable)
- (Nigeria) Fried plantain.
- 2015, Kemi Quinn, African Dishes Made Easy:
- Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The best dodo is made from soft (almost over ripe) plantain which is cut in 1/2 inch thick diagonal slices and fried to a crispy golden brown.
- 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen: A Novel:
- Mother had banned it a year or so earlier after Obembe and I stole pieces from Mother's cooler, and lied that we'd seen rats eating the dodos.
- 2018, Remmi Smith, The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes:
- One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”
Anagrams edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English dodo, of uncertain etymology.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: do‧do
Noun edit
dodo
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Portuguese dodô.
Noun edit
dodo m (plural dodo's, diminutive dodootje n)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
dodo m (uncountable)
- (Belgium, childish) Sleep, nighty night.
- Synonym: dokes
- Wil je dodo doen? ― Do you want to go to sleep?
Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
dodo (accusative singular dodon, plural dodoj, accusative plural dodojn)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo
- dodo (extinct bird of the family Columbidae)
- dodo, †Raphus cucullatus (type species of the family)
- solitaire (two extinct birds of the family Columbidae, more specifically Réunion soilitaire, †Raphus solitarius and Rodriques solitaire, †Pezophaps solitaria)
Usage notes edit
- Réunion solitaire has been reclassified taxonomically and is now preferably called Réunion ibis ( †Threskiornis solitarius).
Declension edit
Inflection of dodo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dodo | dodot | ||
genitive | dodon | dodojen | ||
partitive | dodoa | dodoja | ||
illative | dodoon | dodoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dodo | dodot | ||
accusative | nom. | dodo | dodot | |
gen. | dodon | |||
genitive | dodon | dodojen | ||
partitive | dodoa | dodoja | ||
inessive | dodossa | dodoissa | ||
elative | dodosta | dodoista | ||
illative | dodoon | dodoihin | ||
adessive | dodolla | dodoilla | ||
ablative | dodolta | dodoilta | ||
allative | dodolle | dodoille | ||
essive | dodona | dodoina | ||
translative | dodoksi | dodoiksi | ||
abessive | dodotta | dodoitta | ||
instructive | — | dodoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
- (Raphus cucullatus): mauritiuksendodo
Derived terms edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Childish reduplication of dormir.
Noun edit
dodo m (plural dodos)
- (childish) sleep, kip
- Tu veux faire dodo? ― Do you want to go to sleep?
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Portuguese doudo or Dutch dodaars.
Noun edit
dodo m (plural dodos)
- a dodo bird
Further reading edit
- “dodo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo m (plural dodi)
Anagrams edit
Mauritian Creole edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
dodo
- dodo bird
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
dodo
- to sleep (childish)
References edit
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Nigerian Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo
Old Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Substantive form of dōt (“dead”).
Noun edit
dōdo m
- dead person
Inflection edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “dōdo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Seychellois Creole edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
dodo
- to sleep
References edit
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo m (plural dodos)
Further reading edit
- “dodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
dodo (ma class, plural madodo)
- breast (organ)
Synonyms edit
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodò (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇᜓ)
- Alternative form of dede
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Spanish loro (“parrot”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo
- the yellow-crowned amazon, Amazona ochrocephala
- the blue-fronted amazon, Amazona aestiva
- the two-striped forest-pitviper or parrotsnake, Bothrops bilineatus
References edit
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dodo”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 120, 126
- Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris[3] (in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “dodo”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “dodo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yoruba edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun sense derives from the ideophone sense.
Pronunciation edit
Ideophone edit
dòdò
- (of an object) being deeply or richly red
- rẹ̀ dòdò ― To turn or become a deep red
- 1997, Sachnine Michika, “dòdò”, in Dictionnaire usuel yorùbá-français suivi d'un index français-yorùbá (overall work in French), Ibadan, Nigeria: Éditions Karthala and IFRA-Ibadan, →ISBN, page 220:
- Àwọn Yorùbá kì í wọ aṣọ tó bá rẹ̀ dòdò.
- The Yoruba do not wear bright red clothes.
- 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[6], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN:
- Ó já sí pápá, ó rẹ̀ dòdò, ó so igba àdó mọ́rí.
- It bursts into the open field, it comes out in deep red, it ties two hundred tiny gourds on its head (riddle = imí/ìgbẹ́ (feces))
- 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting A. Babalola, “dòdò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ[7], number LDC2008L03, 1973, Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Ltd., page 26, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN:
- Ìlẹ̀pa dòdò kì í jẹ́ kí òkú bẹ̀nìyàn wò.
- The deep red laterite from fresh grave does not allow the dead to come and visit his relations.
- 2009, “Gẹnẹsisi 49”, in Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn [Yoruba Contemporary Bible (YCB)], Biblica, Inc:
- 12: Ojú rẹ̀ yóò rẹ̀ dòdò ju wáìnì lọ.
- 12: His eyes will become redder than wine.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
dòdò
- Fried plantain
- dín dòdò ― to fry plantain
- 1993 November 24, Antonia Yétúndé Fọlárìn Schleicher, Jẹ́ K'Á Sọ Yorùbá [Let's Speak Yoruba], Yale University, →ISBN, page 197:
- Oúnjẹ tí mo fẹ́ràn ju ni dòdò. Oúnjẹ díndín ni dòdò. Dòdò kò ṣòro láti dín rárá.
- My favorite food is fried plantain. It's a fried food. (Fried) Plantain isn't hard to fry at all.
Derived terms edit
- adíndòdò (“one who fries ripe plantain”)
- onídòdò (“an owner or seller of fried plantain”)
- dòdò Ìkire (“a Yoruba dish”)
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dòdo
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dòdo
- The poison devil's-pepper, Rauvolfia vomitoria
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dòdo
Etymology 5 edit
From di (“to become”) + odò (“river”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dodò
- to become or be transformed into a river or stream
- 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting I. O. Delano, “dodò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ[8], number LDC2008L03, 1966, Ibadan: University Press Limited, page 24, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN:
- Ìrì kérékéré níí dodò; ìrì wàràwàrà níí dòjò, kí ọmọdé méje kọ oúnjẹ alẹ́ níí dìjà àgbàlagbà.
- Just as it is the trickles of dew that become a stream, and it is the falling of heavy dews that form rains, so for seven siblings to refuse their dinner would provoke a fight between adults (proverb on the danger of minor events).
Alternative forms edit
- d'odò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)
Etymology 6 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dodo
- The plants Adenia lobata and Adenia cissampeloides.
Etymology 7 edit
From dé (“to arrive at”) + odò (“river”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dódò
- to arrive at a river or stream
- 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dódò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[9], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN:
- Mo dódò mo kàndí/tìró, mi ò rọ́lọ́kọ̀ tí yóò tù mí gàlé, omi ńlá ti gbé ẹja lọ!
- I got to the river and stood back; I did not find a canoe man to pilot me across; the bigger river has swept off the fish!
Alternative forms edit
- d'ódò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)
Derived terms edit
- adódò (“the one that arrives at the river”)
- adódòmáwẹ̀ (“the one that arrives at the river but does not clean themselves”)
References edit
- Awoyale, Yiwola (December 19, 2008) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0[10], volume LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, , →ISBN
- Gbile, Z. O. (1984) Vernacular Names of Nigerian Plants (in Yoruba), Ibadan, Nigeria: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, page 533-534
- Verger, Pierre Fatumbi (1997) Ewé: The Use of Plants in Yoruba Society, Sāo Paulo: Companhia das Latras, page 20