xu
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xu
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sou.
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xu (plural xu or (rare) xus)
- A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
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xu
- Romanization of 𐍇𐌿
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Gbe *χʷú. Cognates include Fon xú, Saxwe Gbe xwyá, Adja xú, Ayizo xu
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- hú (Nigeria)
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xú (Benin)
- to dry
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- Abɔ̀xúsùn (“November - the month of drying sorghum”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Gbe *-χʷú. Cognates include Fon xú, Saxwe Gbe oxú, Adja exu, Ewe eƒu
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Etymology 3 edit
From Proto-Gbe *-χʷu. Cognates include Fon xù, Saxwe Gbe axù, Saxwe Gbe ɛxù, Adja axu, Ewe ƒu
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- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓿
xu
- Nonstandard spelling of xū.
- Nonstandard spelling of xú.
- Nonstandard spelling of xǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of xù.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Phalura edit
Etymology edit
From Pashto [script needed] (xo).
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xu (discourse, Perso-Arabic spelling خوۡ)
- but
- however
- although
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xu
- future tense marker
- Làpi xu pè.
- He will come again.
- Alàpa xu nëmanitu sapan.
- Tomorrow I will make sapan.
References edit
- Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “xu”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
Vietnamese edit
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xu
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White Hmong edit
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xu
- to miss, miss the mark, miss the target
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- xu siab (“undesirable”)