dodo

See also: Dodo, dodó, dodô, dödö, and do do

English

A dodo

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from obsolete Portuguese doudo (“fool, simpleton, silly, stupid”) or Dutch dodaars. First attested in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊdəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊdəʊ
• Hyphenation: do‧do

Noun

dodo (plural dodoes or dodos)

1. A large, flightless bird, †Raphus cucullatus, related to the pigeon, that is now extinct (since the 1600s) and was native to Mauritius.
   • 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter XLI, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book III, pages 133–134:

     In spite of the most active search, during the last century, no information respecting the dodo was obtained, and some authors have gone so far as to pretend that it never existed; […]

   • 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter IX, in The Voyage of the Beagle‎^[1]:

     Within a very few years after these islands shall have become regularly settled, in all probability this fox will be classed with the dodo, as an animal which has perished from the face of the earth.

   • 2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.

2. (figuratively) A person or organisation which is very old or has very old-fashioned views or is not willing to change and adapt.
3. (golf) A hole in one.
   • 2012, Arv Olson, Backspin: 120 Years of Golf in British Columbia, page 253:

     "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.

Derived terms

• as dead as a dodo
• dead as a dodo
• dodo bird
• dodoesque
• dodoism
• dodolike
• dodoness
• dodo tree
• go the way of the dodo
• go the way of the dodo bird
• little dodo

 

Translations

Raphus cucullatus

• Arabic: دُودُو m (dūdū)
• Assamese: ড’ড’ (dödö)
• Bulgarian: додо (bg) m (dodo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘟嘟鳥 / 嘟嘟鸟 (zh) (dūdūniǎo), 毛里求斯渡渡鳥 (Máolǐqiúsī dùdùniǎo), 渡渡鳥 / 渡渡鸟 (zh) (dùdùniǎo), 愚鳩 / 愚鸠 (zh) (yújiū), 孤鴿 / 孤鸽 (zh) (gūgē)

• Czech: dronte mauricijský (cs) m, blboun nejapný (cs) m, dodo (cs) m
• Danish: dronte c
• Dutch: dodo (nl) m, walgvogel
• Esperanto: dodo (eo), dronto
• Estonian: dront (et), dodo (et)
• Finnish: drontti (fi), dodo (fi)
• French: dodo (fr) m, dronte (fr) m
• German: Dodo (de) m, Dronte (de) m, Doudo m, Dudu m
• Greek: διδώ f (didó), δοδώ f (dodó)
• Hebrew: דודו m (dodo)
• Hungarian: dodó (hu), dodógalamb
• Icelandic: dúdúfugl (is) m
• Ido: dronto (io)
• Interlingua: dodo
• Italian: dodo (it) m, dronte m
• Japanese: ドードー (ja) (dōdō)
• Korean: 도도 (ko) (dodo)
• Latin: raphus cucullatus
• Norwegian: dodo (no) m (Bokmål), dronte m (Nynorsk)
• Occitan: dodo m
• Polish: dodo (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Portugal) dodó (pt) m, (Brazil) dodô (pt) m, dronte m
• Romanian: pasărea dodo f, dront m
• Russian: додо́ (ru) m (dodó), дронт (ru) m (dront)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: додо m

  Latin: dodo (sh) m

• Spanish: dodo (es) m, dronte m
• Swahili: doda
• Swedish: dront (sv) c
• Tamil: டோடோ (ṭōṭō)
• Thai: โดโด้ (doo-dôo)
• Turkish: dodo (tr), Mauritius dodosu
• Urdu: ڈو ڈو m (dodo)

old-fashioned person or institution

• Dutch: dodo (nl) m
• Finnish: fossiili (fi)
• French: fossile (fr) m
• Swedish: fossil (sv) n
• Thai: ไดโนเสาร์ (th) (dai-noo-sǎo, literally “dinosaur”) (slang)

See also

• didine
• ratite

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).

Noun

dodo (uncountable)

1. (Nigeria) Fried plantain.
   • 2015, Kemi Quinn, African Dishes Made Easy:

     Dodo is everybody's favorite! It is a superb snack, a side dish, a breakfast food or a dessert all rolled into one. The best dodo is made from soft (almost over ripe) plantain which is cut in 1/2 inch thick diagonal slices and fried to a crispy golden brown.

   • 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen: A Novel:

     Mother had banned it a year or so earlier after Obembe and I stole pieces from Mother's cooler, and lied that we'd seen rats eating the dodos.

   • 2018, Remmi Smith, The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes:

     One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”

Derived terms

• gizdodo

 

Anagrams

• dood

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English dodo, of uncertain etymology.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: do‧do

Noun

dodo

1. dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoːdoː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: do‧do

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese dodô.

Noun

dodo m (plural dodo's, diminutive dodootje n)

1. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus

   Synonyms: dodaars, dronte, walgvogel

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French dodo.

Noun

dodo m (uncountable)

1. (Belgium, childish) sleep, nighty night

   Synonym: dokes

   Wil je dodo doen? ― Do you want to go to sleep?

Anagrams

• dood

Esperanto

Alternative forms

• dido

Noun

dodo (accusative singular dodon, plural dodoj, accusative plural dodojn)

1. dodo

Finnish

Etymology

From English dodo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdodo/, [ˈdo̞do̞]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Hyphenation^(key): do‧do

Noun

dodo

1. dodo (extinct bird of the family Columbidae)
2. dodo, †Raphus cucullatus (type species of the family)
3. solitaire (two extinct birds of the family Columbidae, more specifically Réunion soilitaire, †Raphus solitarius and Rodriques solitaire, †Pezophaps solitaria)

Usage notes

• Réunion solitaire has been reclassified taxonomically and is now preferably called Réunion ibis ( †Threskiornis solitarius).

Declension

Inflection of dodo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		dodo	dodot
genitive		dodon	dodojen
partitive		dodoa	dodoja
illative		dodoon	dodoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		dodo	dodot
accusative	nom.	dodo	dodot
	gen.	dodon
genitive		dodon	dodojen
partitive		dodoa	dodoja
inessive		dodossa	dodoissa
elative		dodosta	dodoista
illative		dodoon	dodoihin
adessive		dodolla	dodoilla
ablative		dodolta	dodoilta
allative		dodolle	dodoille
essive		dodona	dodoina
translative		dodoksi	dodoiksi
abessive		dodotta	dodoitta
instructive		—	dodoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of dodo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative dodoni dodoni accusative nom. dodoni dodoni gen. dodoni genitive dodoni dodojeni partitive dodoani dodojani inessive dodossani dodoissani elative dodostani dodoistani illative dodooni dodoihini adessive dodollani dodoillani ablative dodoltani dodoiltani allative dodolleni dodoilleni essive dodonani dodoinani translative dodokseni dodoikseni abessive dodottani dodoittani instructive — — comitative — dodoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative dodosi dodosi accusative nom. dodosi dodosi gen. dodosi genitive dodosi dodojesi partitive dodoasi dodojasi inessive dodossasi dodoissasi elative dodostasi dodoistasi illative dodoosi dodoihisi adessive dodollasi dodoillasi ablative dodoltasi dodoiltasi allative dodollesi dodoillesi essive dodonasi dodoinasi translative dodoksesi dodoiksesi abessive dodottasi dodoittasi instructive — — comitative — dodoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative dodomme dodomme accusative nom. dodomme dodomme gen. dodomme genitive dodomme dodojemme partitive dodoamme dodojamme inessive dodossamme dodoissamme elative dodostamme dodoistamme illative dodoomme dodoihimme adessive dodollamme dodoillamme ablative dodoltamme dodoiltamme allative dodollemme dodoillemme essive dodonamme dodoinamme translative dodoksemme dodoiksemme abessive dodottamme dodoittamme instructive — — comitative — dodoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative dodonne dodonne accusative nom. dodonne dodonne gen. dodonne genitive dodonne dodojenne partitive dodoanne dodojanne inessive dodossanne dodoissanne elative dodostanne dodoistanne illative dodoonne dodoihinne adessive dodollanne dodoillanne ablative dodoltanne dodoiltanne allative dodollenne dodoillenne essive dodonanne dodoinanne translative dodoksenne dodoiksenne abessive dodottanne dodoittanne instructive — — comitative — dodoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative dodonsa dodonsa accusative nom. dodonsa dodonsa gen. dodonsa genitive dodonsa dodojensa partitive dodoaan dodoansa dodojaan dodojansa inessive dodossaan dodossansa dodoissaan dodoissansa elative dodostaan dodostansa dodoistaan dodoistansa illative dodoonsa dodoihinsa adessive dodollaan dodollansa dodoillaan dodoillansa ablative dodoltaan dodoltansa dodoiltaan dodoiltansa allative dodolleen dodollensa dodoilleen dodoillensa essive dodonaan dodonansa dodoinaan dodoinansa translative dodokseen dodoksensa dodoikseen dodoiksensa abessive dodottaan dodottansa dodoittaan dodoittansa instructive — — comitative — dodoineen dodoinensa

Synonyms

• (Raphus cucullatus): mauritiuksendodo

Derived terms

• mauritiuksendodo (†Raphus cucullatus, dodo)
• reunionindodo (†Raphus solitarius, Réunion solitaire)
• rodriguezindodo (†Pezophaps solitaria, Rodrigues solitaire)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.do/

Etymology 1

Childish reduplication of dormir.

Noun

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. (childish) sleep, kip

   Tu veux faire dodo? ― Do you want to go to sleep?

Derived terms

• métro, boulot, dodo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese doudo or Dutch dodaars.

Noun

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. a dodo bird

Further reading

• “dodo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.do/
• Rhymes: -ɔdo
• Hyphenation: dò‧do

Noun

dodo m (plural dodi)

1. dodo

Anagrams

• Oddo

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French dodo.

Noun

dodo

1. dodo bird

Etymology 2

From French dodo.

Verb

dodo

1. to sleep (childish)

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Nigerian Pidgin

Dodo

Etymology

Borrowed from Yoruba dòdò (“fried plantain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dòdò/

Noun

dodo

1. Fried plantain.
   • 2021 July 6, “RMD: Richard Mofe-Damijo profile inside six fun facts”, in BBC Pidgin‎^[3]:

     RMD bin love beans and dodo (fried plantain) but e change di diet plan for health reasons.

     RMD loved beans and fried plantain but he changed his diet plan for health reasons.

Old Dutch

Etymology

Substantive form of dōt (“dead”).

Noun

dōdo m

1. dead person

Inflection

Declension of dodo (masculine weak n-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	dōdo	dōdon, -un
accusative	dōdo	dōdon, -un
genitive	dōdin	dōdono
dative	dōdon, -in	dōdon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dôde
  • Dutch: dode

Further reading

• “dōdo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French dodo.

Verb

dodo

1. to sleep

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdodo/ [ˈd̪o.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: do‧do

Noun

dodo m (plural dodos)

1. dodo

   Synonym: (obsolete) dronte

Further reading

• “dodo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

dodo class V (plural madodo class VI)

1. breast (organ)

Synonyms

• ziwa

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdodoʔ/ [ˈd̪oː.d̪oʔ]
• Rhymes: -odoʔ
• Syllabification: do‧do

Noun

dodò (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇᜓ)

1. Alternative form of dede

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dodo
Brazilian standard	dodo
New Tribes	dodo

Etymology

Probably from Spanish loro (“parrot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doɾ̠o]

Noun

dodo

1. the yellow-crowned amazon, Amazona ochrocephala
2. the blue-fronted amazon, Amazona aestiva
3. the two-striped forest-pitviper or parrotsnake, Bothrops bilineatus

References

• Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “dodo”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[4] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, pages 120, 126
• Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[5] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “dodo”
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 388: “dodo - parrot (>Sp)”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dodo”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[6], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Yoruba

FWOTD – 25 May 2022

Etymology 1

Òòrùn alẹ́ t'ó rẹ̀ dòdò.

Noun sense derives from the ideophone sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dò.dò/

Ideophone

dòdò

1. (of an object) being deeply or richly red

   rẹ̀ dòdò ― To turn or become a deep red

   Ara wọn rẹ̀ dòdò bíi ẹ̀jẹ̀.

   Their body turned dark red like blood.

   • 1997, Sachnine Michika, “dòdò”, in Dictionnaire usuel yorùbá-français suivi d'un index français-yorùbá (overall work in French), Ibadan, Nigeria: Éditions Karthala and IFRA-Ibadan, →ISBN, page 220:

     Àwọn Yorùbá kì í wọ aṣọ tó bá rẹ̀ dòdò.

     The Yoruba do not wear bright red clothes.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[7], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ó rẹ̀ dòdò bí òòrùn alẹ́.

     It turned deep red like the late evening sun.

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dòdò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[8], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ó já sí pápá, ó rẹ̀ dòdò, ó so igba àdó mọ́rí.

     It bursts into the open field, it comes out in deep red, it ties two hundred tiny gourds on its head (riddle = imí/ìgbẹ́ (feces))

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting A. Babalola, “dòdò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ‎^[9], number LDC2008L03, 1973, Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Ltd., page 26, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ìlẹ̀pa dòdò kì í jẹ́ kí òkú bẹ̀nìyàn wò.

     The deep red laterite from fresh grave does not allow the dead to come and visit his relations.

   • 2009, “Gẹnẹsisi 49”, in Bíbélì Mímọ́ Yorùbá Òde Òn [Yoruba Contemporary Bible (YCB)], Biblica, Inc:

     12: Ojú rẹ̀ yóò rẹ̀ dòdò ju wáìnì lọ.

     12: His eyes will become redder than wine.

Derived terms

• arẹ̀dòdò (“one that is deeply red; deeply red”)
• dòdòòdò (“of an object being very deeply or richly red”)
• rẹ̀ dòdò (“to be a deep red, (of a sauce) to look appetizing”)
• ìrẹ̀dòdò (“having a deep red color”)

 

Noun

dòdò

Ẹ̀wà àti dòdò.

1. Fried plantain

   dín dòdò ― to fry plantain

   Dòdò díndín kò ṣòro rárá.

   Frying plantain isn't hard at all.

   • 1993 November 24, Antonia Yétúndé Fọlárìn Schleicher, Jẹ́ K'Á Sọ Yorùbá [Let's Speak Yoruba], Yale University, →ISBN, page 197:

     Oúnjẹ tí mo fẹ́ràn ju ni dòdò. Oúnjẹ díndín ni dòdò. Dòdò kò ṣòro láti dín rárá.

     My favorite food is fried plantain. It's a fried food. (Fried) Plantain isn't hard to fry at all.

Derived terms

• adíndòdò (“one who fries ripe plantain”)
• onídòdò (“an owner or seller of fried plantain”)
• dòdò Ìkire (“a Yoruba dish”)

Descendants

• → English: dodo
• → Nigerian Pidgin: dodo

Etymology 2

Dòdo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

Noun

dòdo

1. Callichilia

Etymology 3

Dòdo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

Noun

dòdo

1. The poison devil's-pepper, Rauvolfia vomitoria

Etymology 4

Dòdo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dò.dō/

Noun

dòdo

1. Tabernaemontana pachysiphon

Etymology 5

From di (“to become”) +‎ odò (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dō.dò/

Verb

dodò

1. to become or be transformed into a river or stream
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting I. O. Delano, “dodò”, in Orin Ọdẹ fún Àṣeyẹ‎^[10], number LDC2008L03, 1966, Ibadan: University Press Limited, page 24, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ìrì kérékéré níí dodò; ìrì wàràwàrà níí dòjò, kí ọmọdé méje kọ oúnjẹ alẹ́ níí dìjà àgbàlagbà.

     Just as it is the trickles of dew that become a stream, and it is the falling of heavy dews that form rains, so for seven siblings to refuse their dinner would provoke a fight between adults (proverb on the danger of minor events).

Alternative forms

• d'odò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)

Etymology 6

Dodo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dō.dō/

Noun

dodo

1. The plants Adenia lobata and Adenia cissampeloides.

Etymology 7

From dé (“to arrive at”) +‎ odò (“river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dó.dò/

Verb

dódò

1. to arrive at a river or stream
   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, “dódò”, in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[11], number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Mo dódò mo kàndí/tìró, mi ò rọ́lọ́kọ̀ tí yóò tù mí gàlé, omi ńlá ti gbé ẹja lọ!

     I got to the river and stood back; I did not find a canoe man to pilot me across; the bigger river has swept off the fish!

Alternative forms

• d'ódò (standard orthography when odò has a qualifier)

Derived terms

• adódò (“the one that arrives at the river”)
• adódòmáwẹ̀ (“the one that arrives at the river but does not clean themselves”)

References

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[12], volume LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN
• Gbile, Z. O. (1984) Vernacular Names of Nigerian Plants (in Yoruba), Ibadan, Nigeria: Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, pages 533-534
• Verger, Pierre Fatumbi (1997) Ewé: The Use of Plants in Yoruba Society, Sāo Paulo: Companhia das Latras, page 20