wudu

See also: Wudu, wǔdú, Wǔdū, wúdù, and wudu'

English

Alternative forms

• wudu', wudhu, wuzu, woodoo

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːduː/, /ˈwʊduː/

Noun

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
2. (Islam) the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

Synonyms

• abdest

Coordinate terms

• ghusl
• wazukhana

Translations

ritual washing after minor impurity

• Albanian: avdes (sq) m
• Arabic: وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ)
• Azerbaijani: dəstəmaz, abdəst (az), təharət
• Bashkir: тәһәрәт
• Bengali: ওজু (bn) (ōju), আবদস্ত (abdosto)
• Bulgarian: абде́ст m (abdést)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小淨／小净 (zh) (xiǎojìng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: woedoe
• Finnish: rukouspesu
• German: kleine Waschung f, Wudu (de) n
• Gujarati: વુઝૂ (vujhū), વુજૂ n (vujū), આબદસ્ત n (ābadast)
• Hindi: वुज़ू m (vuzū), वज़ू m (vazū), आबदस्त (hi) m (ābdast)
• Indonesian: wudu (id)
• Japanese: ウドゥー (udū), ウドゥ (udu)
• Javanese: wulu (jv), ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (jv) (wulu)
• Kazakh: дәрет (däret)
• Korean: 우두 (udu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: avdest (ku), abdest (ku), awdest (ku)

• Kyrgyz: даарат (ky) (daarat)
• Macedonian: абдест m (abdest)
• Malay: wuduk (ms)
• Malayalam: വുദു (vudu)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: وُضُو (fa) (wuzū), آبْدَسْت (fa) (ābdast)

  Iranian Persian: وُضو (fa) (vozu), آبْدَسْت (fa) (âbdast)

• Polish: abdest (pl) m
• Portuguese: abdeste m
• Russian: абде́ст (ru) m (abdɛ́st), вуду́ (ru) n (vudú), вуду́г m (vudúg), омове́ние (ru) n (omovénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀бдест m, а̀бдес m, а̀вдест m

  Roman: àbdest (sh) m, àbdes m, àvdest (sh) m

• Spanish: abdesto (es) m
• Swahili: udhu
• Tajik: вузӯ (vuzü), обдаст (obdast), дастнамоз (dastnamoz), таҳорат (tahorat)
• Tatar: тәһарәт (tt) (täharät)
• Turkish: abdest (tr), taharet (tr)
• Ukrainian: вуду́ n (vudú), абде́ст (uk) m (abdést), омові́ння n (omovínnja)
• Urdu: وُضُو (ur) m (vuzū), وَضُو (ur) m (vazū), آبْدَسْت m (ābdast)
• Uzbek: tahorat (uz)

Borôro

Verb

wudu

1. to fall

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay [Term?] (Standard Malay wuduk), from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/
• Rhymes: -du
• Hyphenation: wu‧du

Noun

wudu (plural wudu-wudu, first-person possessive wuduku, second-person possessive wudumu, third-person possessive wudunya)

1. (Islam) wudu:
   1. form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
   2. the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

Alternative forms

• udu
• uduk
• wudhu
• wuduk

 

The Standard Malay form in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore is wuduk.

Derived terms

• berwudu

 

Further reading

• “wudu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Alternative forms

• widu, wiodu, wudo
• ᚹᚢᛞᚢ (wudu) — Franks Casket

Etymology

Dissimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/

Noun

wudu m

1. wood
2. forest, woods
3. tree

Declension

Declension of wudu (strong u-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wudu	wuda
accusative	wudu	wuda
genitive	wuda	wuda
dative	wuda	wudum

Synonyms

• (wood): holt
• (forest): holt, weald
• (tree): trēow, bēam

Derived terms

• wuduweard (“forester”)

Descendants

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

See also

• triewen (“wooden”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English voodoo, from Louisiana Creole voudou, from Haitian Creole vodou, from a West African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.du/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

Noun

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of voodoo

Further reading

• wudu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwuː.d̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

Noun

wudu (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓᜇᜓ) (Islam)

1. wudu

See also

• abdas
• ablusyon

 

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.d̪u/

Verb

wudu

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of udu (“to blow”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of wudu (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		towudu	mowudu	awudu
2nd person		nowudu	fowudu
3rd person	inanimate	iwudu	dowudu
	animate
imperative		nuwudu, wudu	fuwudu, wudu

Noun

wudu

1. Alternative form of udu (“wind”)

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics