dove

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than 300 species of the family Columbidae.
2. A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
3. Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

Verb

1. Strong simple past of dive
2. past participle of dive

Sinonieme

pigeon

bird

🐦

peacenik

spider

🕷️

chicken

🐔

culver

hen

🐔

mourning dove

rooster

🐓

squab

turtledove

turtle dove

ringdove

ring dove

Oxford-blue

child

🧒

dove 's

pigeon 's

dove-gray

turtle-dove

wood pigeon

wood-pigeon

dove-grey

broody hen

soft-liner

hawk

domestic pigeon

Jonah

little bird

Crested Pigeon

dived

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dʌv/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”).
Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).