duikerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• duyker

語源

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

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈdaɪkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdaɪkə/
• 韻: -aɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: diker

名詞

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).

派生語

派生した語

• → Irish: dícear