cu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cu"

Translingual

Symbol

cu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Old Church Slavonic.

Allentiac

Pronoun

cu

1. I, first-person singular

References

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin cum. Compare Romanian cu.

Preposition

cu

1. with

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈku/
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

cu f (plural cus)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.

French

Noun

cu m (plural cus)

1. Alternative spelling of ku

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuu, from Latin cūlum (“ass”). Cognate with Portuguese cu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈku]

Noun

cu m (plural cus)

1. (vulgar, anatomy) ass, arse, booty, rear, behind, butt, buttocks

   Synonyms: nádegas, pandeiro, traseiro

2. (vulgar, anatomy) anus
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:

     faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapa lle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçon

     prepare a enema with a long and thick cane and insert it in the anus of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the anus with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out

3. bottom of a vessel or bottle

Derived terms

• a tomar polo cu
• cu da agulla
• cu de medo
• cueiro
• lamber o cu
• ollo do cu

 

Etymology 2

Noun

cu m

1. (name of the letter q): Misspelling of que.

References

• “cuu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cuu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cu” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cu” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin kū (the name of the letter Q).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: cù

Noun

cu m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.; cue

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• com

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡su]

Verb

cu

1. first-person singular present of kśěś

Mandarin

Romanization

cu

1. Nonstandard spelling of cū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of cǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of cù.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

cu (plural ky)

1. Alternative spelling of cou

Middle Irish

Noun

cu m

1. Alternative spelling of cú

Millcayac

Pronoun

cu

1. I, first-person singular

References

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

Preposition

cu

1. with

Occitan

Noun

cu f (plural cus)

1. cue (the letter q, Q)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kū, from Proto-Germanic *kūz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōus.

Compare Old Frisian kū, Old Saxon kō, Old Dutch kuo, Old High German kuo, Old Norse kýr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

Noun

cū f (nominative plural cȳ)

1. cow
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Of Saint James the Apostle"

     Ān cū wearþ ġebrōht tō þām temple þæt man hīe ġeoffrode.

     A cow was brought to the temple to be sacrificed.

Declension

Declension of cu

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cū	cȳ
accusative	cū	cȳ
genitive	cūe, cūs, cȳ	cūa, cūna
dative	cȳ	cūm, cūum

Derived terms

• cūhierde
• cūwearm

Descendants

• Middle English: cou, cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku
  • English: cow (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: coo, coe, cou
  • Yola: keow

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cuu, from Latin cūlum. Compare Galician cu, Spanish and Italian culo, French cul, and Romanian cur.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku/

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: cu

Noun

cu m (plural cus)

1. (Portugal, vulgar) arse, ass, butt, bum

   Synonyms: rabo, peida

2. (Brazil, vulgar) arsehole or asshole (anus)

   Synonym: olho do cu

3. (Brazil, vulgar) anything or anyone annoying, boring or somewhat bad

Derived terms

• cu de Judas
• cu de sono
• cueiro
• cunheta
• cuzão
• cuzudo
• olho do cu
• um cu

 

Related terms

• culote

Romagnol

Noun

cu m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cum, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku/
• Rhymes: -u

Preposition

cu (+accusative)

1. with

   Vreau să vin cu tine. ― I want to come with you.

2. with (in the instrumental sense)

   Vin cu bicicleta. ― I come by bicycle.

   Lovesc o oglindă cu un ciocan. ― I hit a mirror with a hammer.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• che (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• ca (Sutsilvan)
• tgi (Surmiran)
• co (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

cu

1. (Puter) than

Sicilian

Etymology 1

From Latin cum. Compare Italian con.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku/ (Stressed)
• IPA^(key): /kʊ/ (Unstressed)
• Rhymes: -cu
• Hyphenation: cu

Preposition

cu

1. with

Usage notes

• When followed by a definite article, cu combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:

cu + article	Combined form
cu + u	cû
cu + lu	cu lu
cu + a	câ
cu + la	cu la
cu + i	chî
cu + li	cu li
cu + l'	cu l'

Related terms

• 'n
• a
• di
• ncapu
• ncoḍḍu
• nfra
• nna
• nne
• nni
• ntra
• pi
• supra

 

Etymology 2

From an inflection of Latin quis. Akin to chi and ca.

Pronoun

cu

1. who
2. that

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/ [ˈku]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: cu

Noun

cu f (plural cus or cúes)

1. Name of the letter q

Further reading

• “cu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tarantino

Etymology

From Latin cum.

Preposition

cu

1. with

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒʊ/

Interjection

cu

1. (chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to rhyme with "ananın amcuğu" (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).

   "Cu'da bomba patlamış, duydun mu?" "Cu neresi?" "ANANIN AMCUĞUUUUU"

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ku˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *t-kuː (“dove”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Kha Phong təkuː¹. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.

This is the form without both diphthongization and lenition. Also in common use are câu, bồ câu, both with diphthongization. The form gâu (in chim gâu) with both diphthongization and lenition is also attested.

Noun

(classifier con) cu • (鴝)

1. dove; pigeon (especially the wild ones)

   Synonym: cu cu

See also

• gầm ghì

Derived terms

• cu đất
• cu gáy

 

Interjection

cu • (鴝)

1. (onomatopoeia) coo

Etymology 2

From etymology 1. For semantic relationship, compare English cock, Chinese 屌 (diǎo), 鳥／鸟 (“bird”), Cantonese 㞗, 鳩／鸠 (“pigeon”), Thai นกเขา (nók-kǎo, “pigeon”). Also see cò, chim.

Noun

(classifier con) cu

1. (anatomy, informal) penis; cock; prick

See also

• chim; dái; cặc; buồi

Noun

cu • (俱)

1. (colloquial) boy

   Thằng cu đó quậy thật.

   He's one mischievous boy.

   Cu Tí ơi!

   Hey, Ti-boy!

   Ê cu! Lại đây biểu!

   Hey boy! Come here!

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh ku, from Proto-Brythonic *kʉβ̃ (compare Breton kuñv), from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“dear, nice”) (compare Old Irish cóem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“of the home, belonging to the family”) (compare English home, Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), Sanskrit क्षेम (kṣéma, “basis, foundation”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kiː/
• Homophone: ci (South Wales only)

Adjective

cu (feminine singular cu, plural cu, equative cued, comparative cuach, superlative cuaf)

1. dear, beloved

   Synonyms: annwyl, hoff

Derived terms

• mamgu
• tadcu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cu	gu	nghu	chu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies