Deer
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English
Pronunciation
- AHD: dîr
- IPA: /dɪə(r)/
- SAMPA: /dI@(r)/
Homophones
Etymology
Originally with the meaning "animal" (of any kind), cognate with Dutch dier, German Tier, Swedish djur, etc.
Noun
deer (Plural: deer)
- Mammalian animal with antlers and hooves. Male: buck, stag. Female: doe. Young: fawn. Sarconym: venison.
- I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
See Also
Translations
- Albanian: dreri
- Basque: orein
- Belarusian: алень (alen')
- Bosnian: jelen m, košuta f, lane n y
- Breton: karv f kirvi pl
- Bulgarian: елен (elen)
- Catalan: cérvol m (ca)
- Chinese: 鹿
- Chumash (Inezeño): wɨ
- Czech: jelen m, laň f
- Danish: hjort
- Dutch: hert n
- Esperanto: cervo
- Estonian: hirv
- Faroese: hjørtur
- Finnish: saksanhirvi
- French: cerf m
- Frisian: hart
- Friulian: cierf
- Galician: cervo
- German: Reh n, Hirsch m (de)
- Greek: ελάφι (elaphe, elafi, elafe)
- Hebrew: עופר m
- Hungarian: szarvas
- Icelandic: hjörtur (krónhjörtur)
- Indonesian: kijang, rusa, menjangan
- Interlingua: cervo
- Irish: fia (fia rua)
- Italian: cervo m
- Japanese: 鹿 (しか, shika)
- Ladin: cerf
- Latin: cervus m, cerva f
- Latvian: briedis (staltbriedis)
- Lithuanian: elnias m, elnė f
- Macedonian: елен (elen)
- Maltese: ċerf (ċerf l-aħmar)
- Mongolian: буга (bug)
- Norwegian: hjort
- Occitan: cèrvi
- Portuguese: veado m, cervo m
- Romanian: cerb m, căprioară f
- Romansh: tschierv
- Romany: cherbo m
- Russian: олень (alеn') m
- Sami: ruksesgoddi
- Sardinian: crebu, crefu, cherbu, chervu
- Scottish: ruadh
- Serbian: jелен (jelen)
- Slovene: jelen m, košuta f
- Spanish: ciervo m
- Swedish: hjort
- Turkish: geyik
- Ukrainian: олень (olen')
- Welsh: carw