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ayu

See also: Ayu, āyu, and āyǔ

English

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Ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis (sweetfish)

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From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).

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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

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From Latin allium.

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ayu m (plural ayos)

  1. garlic (plant)

Balinese

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ayu

  1. Romanization of ᬳᬬᬸ

Gorontalo

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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

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Àyū

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  • 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

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

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

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ayu

  1. beautiful, pretty
  2. lovely

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Japanese

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ayu

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

Javanese

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ayu

  1. Romanization of ꦲꦪꦸ

Leonese

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Inherited from Latin ālium

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ayu m (plural ayos)

  1. garlic

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Malay

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Etymology

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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

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Probably 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.)

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ayu

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

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Further reading

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

Taroko

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From Seediq yayu (“knife”).

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ayu

  1. a burn (landform)

Yoruba

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Probably from Portuguese alho

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ayù

  1. garlic
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