Deer

Noun

 * 1)  a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla
 * 2) The meat of such an animal
 * 3)  Any animal, especially a mammal.

Adjectives for Deer
shy; brown; agile; astonished; stricken; shadowy; wounded; tame; antlered; plentiful; exquisite; graceful; sobbing; sleek; truant; fleet; swift.

Verbs for Deer
chase—; follow—; herd—; lasso—; shelter—; skin—; rouse—; wound—; —bounds; —darts; —frequents; —haunts; —leaps; —roams; —sheds; —shies; —shuns; — treads; —treks.

Thesaurus
buck, camel, camelopard, caribou, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, elk, fallow deer, fawn, gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose, mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck, springbok, stag, wildebeest, Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope,

Etymology
From der:, from  deor:, from, from  ‘living thing’ (compare Albanian dash: ‘ram’, Lithuanian pl. daũsos: ‘upper air; heaven’), from - ‘breath’ (compare  dùsti: ‘to sigh’,  душа: ‘breath, spirit’), full-grade derivative of  (compare Lithuanian dvėsti: ‘to breathe, exhale’, Russian undefined: ‘to cough’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘he falls to dust’). For semantic development compare animalis: ‘animal’, from anima: ‘breath, spirit’.

Synonyms

 * buck, stag (male deer)
 * doe (female deer)
 * fawn (young deer)
 * hart (adult deer)
 * venison (deer meat)

Derived terms

 * white-tailed deer

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: dre, sutë
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: أيل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aymara: taruka
 * Basque: orein
 * Belarusian: алень
 * Bengali: হরিণ
 * Bosnian: jelen, košuta , lane
 * Breton: karv kirvi
 * Bulgarian: елен
 * Catalan: cérvol (ca)
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏫ (awi)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: zi
 * Faroese: hjørtur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: cierf
 * Galician: cervo
 * German: Hirsch
 * Greek: ελάφι (eláfi), ζαρκάδι (zarkáði) , δορκάδα (ðorkáða) (Gazella dorcas) , άλκη (álci) (Cervus elaphus)
 * Guaraní: guasu
 * Hebrew: איל
 * Hindi: हिरन, हरिण
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hjörtur (krónhjörtur)
 * Indonesian: kijang, rusa, menjangan
 * Ineseño: wɨ
 * Interlingua: cervo
 * Irish: fia, fia rua,
 * Italian:, ,  ,  ,
 * Japanese: 鹿, シカ
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladin: cerf
 * Lao: ຟານ
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: elnias, elnė
 * Macedonian: елен


 * Malayalam: മാൻ
 * Maltese: ċerf (ċerf l-aħmar)
 * Mapudungun: wemül
 * Maricopa:
 * Mi'kmaq: lentuk
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: mazatl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan: cèrvi
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old French:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: گوزن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: taruka (Bolivia); taruca (Ecuador)
 * Rohingya:
 * Romani: cherbo
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: tschierv
 * Russian: олень
 * Sami: ruksesgoddi
 * Sardinian: crebu, crefu, cherbu, chervu
 * Scottish Gaelic: fiadh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јелен
 * Roman: jelen
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindarin: aras`
 * Slovak: jeleň
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: ciervo, venado
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, hjortdjur
 * Tai Dam:
 * Taos: pę́na
 * Telugu: జింక (jimka)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sugun
 * Ukrainian: олень
 * Urdu: ہرن
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: stäg,  histäg,  jistäg,  stägül
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: hart


 * Basque: oreinki
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鹿肉
 * Finnish: hirvi, hirvenliha, peura, peuranliha, kauris, kauriinliha, poro, poronliha


 * Greek:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Volapük: stägamit


 * : swasu

Anagrams

 * dere, de re
 * dree
 * rede
 * reed, Reed

Etymology
From Germanic *deuzom, from Indo-European *dheusom. Cognate with English deer (Old English dēor), Dutch dier, German Tier, Swedish djur; and with Lithuanian dvēsti, Russian душа (dušá).

Noun

 * 1) pet
 * 2) (obsolete) beast, animal

Inflection

 * Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.