Deer

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 See Also 1.3.2 Translations

English

Pronunciation

• AHD : dîr
• IPA : /dɪə(r)/
• SAMPA : /dI@(r)/

Homophones

• dear

Etymology

Originally with the meaning "animal" (of any kind), cognate with Dutch dier, German Tier, Swedish djur, etc.

Noun

deer (Plural: deer)

1. 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

• buck (male)
• doe (female)
• fawn (young)
• venison (sarconym)

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