See also: Ayu and āyu

English edit

 
Ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis (sweetfish)

Etymology edit

From Japanese (ayu, sweetfish).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɑːjuː/
  • (file)

Noun edit

ayu (usually uncountable, plural ayus)

  1. A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

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Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin allium.

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ayu m (plural ayos)

  1. garlic (plant)

Balinese edit

Romanization edit

ayu

  1. Romanization of ᬳᬬᬸ

Gorontalo edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw.

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ayu

  1. tree
  2. wood, timber

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ayú (plural ayú lẹ) (Nigeria)

  1. leather

Hausa edit

 
Àyū

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʔà.júː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔɛ̀.júː]

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àyū m (possessed form àyun)

  1. manatee, (in particular) the African manatee

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay ayu, from Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, beautiful, pretty), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈaju]
  • Hyphenation: ayu

Adjective edit

ayu

  1. beautiful, pretty
  2. lovely

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Romanization edit

ayu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あゆ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of アユ

Javanese edit

Romanization edit

ayu

  1. Romanization of ꦲꦪꦸ

Leonese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ālium

Noun edit

ayu m (plural ayos)

  1. garlic

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Malay edit

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Etymology edit

From Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, beautiful, pretty), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness).

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ayu (Jawi spelling ايو)

  1. dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

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Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from Sanskrit आयु (āyu, living; lifetime), thus doublet of ayuh and hayu. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

ayu

  1. harmony
  2. Alternative spelling of hayu (good, happiness; welfare; beauty)
  3. Alternative spelling of ayuh, āyuṣa

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Further reading edit

  • "ayu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Taroko edit

Etymology edit

From Seediq yayu (knife).

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ayu

  1. a burn (landform)

Yoruba edit

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Etymology edit

Probably from Portuguese alho

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ayù

  1. garlic