کاجو

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese caju. First attested in c. 1708.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɑː.d͡ʒuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: کا‧جُو

Noun

کاجُو • (kājū) m (Hindi spelling काजू)

1. cashew nut
2. cashew (Anacardium occidentale)

Declension

Declension of کاجو
	singular	plural
direct	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُو (kājū)
oblique	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُووں (kājūō̃)
vocative	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُوو (kājūō)

Further reading

• “کاجو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کاجو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کاجو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “کاجو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.