From Middle English dove, douve, duve, from Old English *dūfe, from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ.

Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, Western Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, nds-de Duuv, nds-nl duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב, Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉.

• IPA: /dʌv/

dove

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, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.

   Synonyms: peace dove

   Antonyms: hawk

3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Song of Solomon 2:14 ↗:

     O my dove, […] let me hear thy voice.

4. A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (slang, countable) Short for love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

• columbid, columbiform, culver, pigeon

• French: colombe, pigeon
• German: Taube
• Italian: colomba, piccione
• Portuguese: pombo, pomba
• Russian: го́лубь
• Spanish: paloma, pichón (young), pichona (young)

• French: colombe
• German: Taube

• German: Täubchen

A modern dialectal formation of the strong conjugation, by analogy with drive → drove and weave → wove.

• (RP) enPR: dōv, IPA: /dəʊv/
• (America) enPR: dōv, IPA: /doʊv/

1. (chiefly, North America and English dialect) Strong simple past of dive
   • 2007: Bob Harris, Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing up: A Woefully Incomplete Guide, §: Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire, page 80, ¶ 4 (first edition; Three Rivers Press; ISBN 9780307394361

     When coffee and cocoa prices unexpectedly dove, Côte d’Ivoire quickly went from Africa’s rich kid to crippling debtitude.

2. (non-standard) past participle of dive

• As an English surname, from the noun dove.
• As a Scottish surname, calque of Scottish Gaelic (mac) Calmáin (“(son of the) dove”). Compare Coleman.
• Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Duff.
• As a north German surname, from the Low German - adjective doof; see deaf.

• enPR: dŭv, IPA: /dʌv/

1. A river in England.
2. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
3. A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Caelum and Puppis.
4. Surname.