duiker

English

a duiker (red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus))

Alternative forms

• duyker

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans duiker (literally “diver”), from Dutch duiker, from Middle Dutch dukere.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: diker

Noun

duiker (plural duikers)

1. 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

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

• → Irish: dícear

Translations

One of any species of small antelope

• Afrikaans: duiker (af)
• Catalan: duiquer m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麂羚 (jǐlíng)

• Dutch: duiker (nl) m
• Finnish: sukeltaja-antilooppi (fi), puikkija (fi)
• Galician: cefalofo m, duiquero m, duiker (gl) m
• German: Ducker m
• Hausa: gada (ha)
• Irish: dícear m
• Italian: cefalofo (it) m
• Polish: dujker m
• Russian: ду́кер (ru) m (dúker)
• Swahili: paa (sw) class IX/X
• Tswana: phuti
• Venda: ntsa
• Vietnamese: linh dương hoẵng, kỉ linh

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœi̯.kər/

Noun

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)

Descendants

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

Dutch

Twee duikers. — Two underwater divers.

Een duiker. — A gymnastic diver.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dukere. Equivalent to duiken (“to dive”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœy̯.kər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dui‧ker
• Rhymes: -œy̯kər

Noun

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

Een duikertje. — A small culvert.

1. an underwater diver
2. a gymnastic diver
3. a fairly narrow water passage under roads and dikes; a culvert
4. a loon (N-Am) or diver (UK), waterbird of the order Gaviiformes
5. a duiker, antelope of the subfamily Cephalophinae

Synonyms

• (a gymnastic diver): schoonspringer
• (a culvert): grondzijl, verlaat, zinker
• (a loon): zeeduiker

Hyponyms

• (an underwater diver): kikvorsman

Derived terms

• brilduiker
• diepzeeduiker
• grondduiker
• ijsduiker
• kuifduiker
• parelduiker
• papegaaiduiker

Related terms

• duik

Descendants

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