dove

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) 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. (countable) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4. (countable, uncountable) A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

Verb

1. (Canada, US, dialectal, form-of, past) simple past of dive
2. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of dive

dive

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Opposite of

hawk

Synonyms

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

Translations

paloma

Taube

colombe

🕊️

pigeon

piccione

duif

περιστέρι

columba

🕊️

colom

🕊️

pombo

colomba

🕊️

Zenaidura

güvercin

🕊️

tourterelle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dove

Inherited from Old English: *dūfe

Cognate with Scots: doo

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Duuwe

Cognate with Western Frisian: do

Cognate with Dutch: duif

Cognate with Afrikaans: duif

Cognate with Sranan Tongo: doifi

Cognate with German: Taube

Cognate with Danish: due

Cognate with Faroese: dúgva

Cognate with Icelandic: dúfa

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: due

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: due

Cognate with Swedish: duva

Cognate with Yiddish: טויב

Cognate with Gothic: *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *dūbaną?
Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ
Proto-West Germanic *dūbā
Old English *dūfe
Middle English douve
English dove
Inherited from Middle English douve, dove, 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).