duiker

• duyker

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

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

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• Rhymes: -aɪkə(ɹ)
• Homophone: diker

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).

• → Irish: dícear

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœi̯.kər/

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)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdœy̯.kər/

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• Hyphenation: dui‧ker
• Rhymes: -œy̯kər

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

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.

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

• (an underwater diver): kikvorsman

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

• duik

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