ayu
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From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).
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ayu (usually uncountable, plural ayus)
- 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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ayu m (plural ayos)
- garlic (plant)
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ayu
- Romanization of ᬳᬬᬸ
Gorontalo edit
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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw.
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ayu
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àyū m (possessed form àyun)
- manatee, (in particular) the African manatee
Indonesian edit
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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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ayu
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- “ayu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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ayu
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ayu
- Romanization of ꦲꦪꦸ
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ayu m (plural ayos)
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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)
- dainty (Delicately small and pretty)
Further reading edit
- “ayu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Javanese edit
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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.)
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ayu
- harmony
- Alternative spelling of hayu (“good, happiness; welfare; beauty”)
- Alternative spelling of ayuh, āyuṣa
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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 edit
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ayu
- a burn (landform)
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Probably from Portuguese alho
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ayù