# kudu
## English
### Alternative forms

* koodoo (dated)
* koudou (dated)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkuːduː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːduː

### Noun

kudu (plural kudus or kudu)
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* kudu berry

#### Translations
### Further reading

* kudu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Tragelaphus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkudu]

### Noun

kudu m anim
* kudu

#### Declension

Also indeclinable.

## Estonian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkud̥u/, [ˈkud̥u]
* Rhymes: -udu
* Hyphenation: ku‧du

### Noun

kudu (genitive kudu, partitive kudu)
* spawn

#### Declension
### References

* 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

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kú.dù/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [kʷʊ́.dɪ̀]

### Adverb

kudù
* south, southwards

#### Derived terms

* kudanci

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

kudu (plural kudu-kudu)
* (obsolete) flower bud

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay کودو (kudu).

#### Noun

kudu (plural kudu-kudu)
* red paint for coloring batik cloth, made from the roots or bark of the mengkudu tree

### Etymology 3

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

#### Adverb

kudu
* (colloquial) mandatory
    Synonyms: harus, wajib

### Further reading

* “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.

## Javanese
### Romanization

kudu
* Romanization of ꦏꦸꦢꦸ

## Kambera
### Verb

kudu
* (intransitive) to be small

### References

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

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkudu]
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### Noun

kudu m animal (indeclinable)
* kudu

### Further reading

* “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