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dahu

Syllables: Da·hu

dahu noun: a legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Noun (1)

dahu (plural dahus)

  1. A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
    • Perhaps still sore at being called crétins des Alpes by lowlanders, the Savoyards, in the early days of mass tourism, would sometimes take gullible visitors on dahu hunts. These entailed all-night vigils out in the open, where the would-be trophy hunter had to crouch and hide so as not to be seen...2017, Stephen O'Shea, The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN

Noun (2)

dahu (plural dahus)

  1. A large bowed two-stringed chordophone of Chinese origin, a tenor part of the erhu family of instruments.

Proper noun capitalized: Dahu

Dahu

  1. A rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan.

Forms of dahu

Noun
pluraldahus
Proper noun
alternative formTahu

Origin of dahu

From Mandarin 大胡 (dàhú).

From Mandarin 大湖 (Dàhú).

Questions about dahu

What does dahu mean?
Dahu means a legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
What part of speech is dahu?
Dahu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of dahu?
The plural of dahu is dahus.

Words near dahu in the dictionary

  1. dahoon
  2. dahoons
  3. dahs
  4. dahsala
  5. dahshala
  6. dahu
  7. Dahur
  8. Dahuria
  9. Dahurian
  10. Dahurian angelica
  11. Dahurian birch

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