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

• 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 (plural kudu-kudu)

1. (obsolete) flower bud

Inherited from Malay کودو (kudu).

kudu (plural kudu-kudu)

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]

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, 2003–2025