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duiker

English

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

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

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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).

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Species of duiker

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  • → Irish: dícear

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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

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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)

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Dutch

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Twee duikers. — Two underwater divers.
 
Een duiker. — A gymnastic diver.

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

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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

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