duiker

• duyker

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Piecewise doublet of ducker.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪkə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: diker

duiker (plural duikers)

1. Any of several species of small southern African antelopes of the Cephalophinae subfamily.

   Hyponym: coquetoon

   • 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).

• → Irish: dícear

From Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duik +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœi̯.kər/

duiker (plural duikers)

1. diver (a person or thing that dives)
2. duiker (a kind of small antelope)
3. diver, loon (a kind of shorebird)

• → English: duiker, duyker
  • → Irish: dícear

From Middle Dutch dukere. By surface analysis, duiken (“to dive”) +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœy̯.kər/

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• Hyphenation: dui‧ker
• Rhymes: -œy̯kər

duiker m (plural duikers, diminutive duikertje n, feminine duikster)

1. an underwater diver

   Hyponym: kikvorsman

2. a gymnastic diver

   Synonym: schoonspringer

3. a fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert

   Synonyms: grondzijl, verlaat, zinker

4. a loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes

   Synonym: zeeduiker

   Hyponyms: geelsnavelduiker, ijsduiker, parelduiker, Pacifische parelduiker, roodkeelduiker

5. a duiker, antelope of the subfamily Cephalophinae

• Afrikaans: duiker
  • → English: duiker, duyker
    • → Irish: dícear
• → Papiamentu: deik