ovu
Guinea-Bissau Creole edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese ovo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ovu.
Noun edit
ovu
Kabuverdianu edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese ovo.
Noun edit
ovu
Sardinian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1132: “l'uovo guasto” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronoun edit
òvū
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum n. Compare Italian uovo.
The irregular plural ova reflects a continuation of the Latin plural with /-a/.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ovu m (plural ova)
- (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
- (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.
- Fìcimu nu beḍḍu pisci d'ovu cu tri ova.
- We made a big omelette with three eggs.
- U massaru mi vulìa dunari na para di ova frischi, ma ci dissi ca sugnu allèrgicu a l'ova.
- The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg.
- (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
- Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
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Swahili edit
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Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
-ovu (declinable)
- evil
- jicho ovu ― evil eye
- mduara ovu ― vicious cycle
- 1952, Biblio [Swahili Union Version Bible], United Bible Societies, Waefeso 4:29:
- Neno lo lote lililo ovu lisitoke vinywani mwenu, […]
- Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, […]
Inflection edit
The only forms used are class 1 mwovu and class 2 waovu.