dikdik

dikdik (plural dikdiks or dikdik)

1. Alternative form of dik-dik (“kind of antelope”)

From English dik-dik.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdikdik/,
• Rhymes: -ikdik
• Syllabification^(key): dik‧dik

dikdik

1. dik-dik (antelope of the genus Madoqua)

• güntherindikdikantilooppi, kärsädiki, Madoqua guentheri (Günther's dik-dik)
• kirkindikdikantilooppi, dikidiki, Madoqua kirkii (Kirk's dik-dik)
• hopeadiki, Madoqua piacentinii (silver dik-dik)
• dikdikantilooppi, kirjodiki, Madoqua saltiana (Salt's dik-dik)

• rikrik — dialectal, Rizal, informal

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəkdək (“pulverize, crush by pounding”). Compare Bikol Central dukdok, Cebuano dukdok, and Malay dedak (“powdered rice husk”). Doublet of darak.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /dikˈdik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: dik‧dik

dikdík (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜃ᜔ᜇᜒᜃ᜔)

1. pulverization by pounding (especially with a pestle)

   Synonyms: pagdurog, pagligis

2. continuous beating (such as from fist blows)
3. continuous attack (such as with artillery)

   Synonym: pagbayo

dikdík (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜃ᜔ᜇᜒᜃ᜔)

1. pulverized from pounding

• “dikdik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dekdek₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• kidkid