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anu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "anu"
Languages (27)
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Afar • Anguthimri • Asturian • Aymara • Chibcha • Darumbal • Esperanto • Guinea-Bissau Creole • Hawaiian • Iban • Indonesian • Kabuverdianu • Latin • Makasar • Malay • Māori • Matal • Old Welsh • Pitjantjatjara • Polish • Portuguese • Sranan Tongo • Sundanese • Tarifit • Tashelhit • Volapük
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Translingual

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anu

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Anuak.

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Afar

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Cushitic *ʔani, from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔanāku. Cognates include Oromo ani, Saho anu, Somali áan and Arabic أَنَا (ʔanā).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈnu/ [ʔʌˈnʊ]
  • Hyphenation: a‧nu

Pronoun

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anú

  1. I
    Anú tuffác akmé. ― I'm eating apples.

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Afar personal pronouns
1st person 2nd person 3rd person
m f
subject singular anú atú úsuk ís
plural nanú isín úsun
object singular yó kó ká tét
plural né sín kén

References

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  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “anu”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Anguthimri

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Noun

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anu

  1. (Mpakwithi) hip

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  • Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 184

Asturian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin anus.

Noun

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anu m (plural anos)

  1. (anatomy) anus (lower opening of the digestive tract)
  2. (Western) alternative form of añu
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Aymara

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Noun

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anu

  1. dog

Chibcha

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Noun

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anu

  1. medium house, house smaller than the main one.

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  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Darumbal

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Noun

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anu

  1. chin

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  • Angela Terrill (2002), Dharumbal: the language of Rockhampton, Australia (Pacific Linguistics; 525), Canberra: Australian National University Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, →ISBN, page 54.

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈanu/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anu
  • Syllabification: a‧nu

Verb

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anu

  1. imperative of ani

Guinea-Bissau Creole

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Etymology

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From Portuguese ano. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ánu.

Noun

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anu

  1. year
  2. birthday

Hawaiian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *qanu. Cognates include Māori anu and Tahitian anu.

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anu

  1. (stative) to be cold

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Iban

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a-nu.

Pronoun

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anu

  1. something whose name is unknown or left unmentioned, typically as a filler word.

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Verb

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anu

  1. to scold; to express anger
  2. to kill

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Compare Iban anu.

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Noun

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anu

  1. something or someone whose name is unknown or left unmentioned, thingamajig
  2. (slang) genital organ

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Kabuverdianu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Portuguese ano.

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anu

  1. (Sotavento) year

References

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  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015), Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary (overall work in English), Mili Mila, →ISBN
  • Veiga, Manuel (2012), Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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anū

  1. ablative singular of anus

Makasar

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a-nu, from Proto-Austronesian *-nu.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈanu/, [ˈã.nũ]
  • Hyphenation: a‧nu

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anu (Lontara spelling ᨕᨊᨘ or 𑻱𑻨𑻴)

  1. a certain someone; so-and-so
    I Anu ― Mr./Ms. So-and-so.
    Daeng Anu rianu ― Mr. So-and-so in such-and-such a land.

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anu (Lontara spelling ᨕᨊᨘ or 𑻱𑻨𑻴, definite anua)

  1. a certain something; thing; whatchamacallit
    Anu jeko ― Something crooked.
    Anu nangaia sareangi ― Give him something that he likes.
  2. a possession; something belonging to someone (often with possessive suffixes: anungku (mine), anunnu (yours), anunna (his/hers), anunta (ours/yours))
    Anungku anunna anunna anungku, seʼreamami takuruài
    Mine is his, his is mine, there is only one thing (the wife) that we do not share (figurative: to express close unity; I.H.Spr. II 265).
    Punna anunta anunna na punna anunna apantai ikatte
    If what is ours is his, but what is his, what is it to us (figurative: said of someone who freely disposes of what we own, but gets angry when we take something of his; I.H.Spr. I 106).

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Further reading

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  • Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a-nu, from Proto-Austronesian *-nu.

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anu (Jawi spelling انو, plural anu-anu or anu2)

  1. Someone or something whose name is not mentioned (on purpose, due to forgetting, etc.).
    si anu ― the (unknown) person
    hajat anu ― an unknown wish
  2. (mathematics) An unknown quantity or variable; an unknown.
    Dalam kiraan ini, 't' merupakan sebuah anu yang mewakili tinggi seorang pelajar.
    In this calculation, 't' is an unknown that stands for a student's height.

Pronoun

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anu (Jawi spelling انو)

  1. (obsolete) synonym of itu
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Further reading

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  • "anu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
    (also see "anu" at PRPM first version)
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-nu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Māori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *qanu. Cognates include Hawaiian anu and Tahitian anu.

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Noun

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anu

  1. cold

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Further reading

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  • John C. Moorfield (2011), “anu”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Matal

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Pronoun

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anu

  1. we, us (first-person plural pronoun)
    Sufəl gulo, delga kà anu la abanay (Mark 9:5).[1]
    My Lord, [it is] good that we [are] here(Mark 9:5)
    Musa atsetsèr à anu mapəhay uwanay (Luka 20:28).[2]
    Moses wrote to us saying this (Luke 20:28)

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  1. ^ http://listen.bible.is/MFHWYI/Mark/9
  2. ^ http://listen.bible.is/MFHWYI/Luka/20

Old Welsh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *anw, from Proto-Celtic *anman, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

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anu (plural enuein)

  1. name

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  • Middle Welsh: enw, enu
    • Welsh: enw

Pitjantjatjara

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Verb

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anu

  1. past of ananyi (“go”): went, left

Polish

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Interjection

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anu

  1. (Łowicz) alternative form of ano

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Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Old Tupi anu.

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    anu m (plural anus)

    1. ani (any bird of the genus Crotophaga)

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    Descendants

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    • →? English: ani
    • → Hunsrik: Anuh

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    Sranan Tongo

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    Etymology

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    From English hand. Compare Maroon Spirit Language anu, Jamaican Creole an, Krio an.[1]

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    • IPA(key): /anu/, [a̠nu], [ɑ̟nu]

    Noun

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    anu

    1. hand
    2. arm
    3. handful
    4. money that is paid out to the participants of a kasmoni

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    Descendants

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    References

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    • Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “anu”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary
    1. ^ Kenneth M. Bilby (1983), “How the "older heads" talk: a Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the Creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone”, in New West Indian Guide, →ISSN, page 54

    Sundanese

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *a-nu, from *nu. Cognate with Indonesian anu (“thingamajig, genitals”), Javanese anu (“uh, umm”), Tagalog ano (“what”).

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    anu (Sundanese script ᮃᮔᮥ)

    1. An article that denotes a noun.
      anu maot ― the deceased
    2. An article that denotes ownership
      Anu urang mah lain nu ieu.
      This one's not mine

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    anu (Sundanese script ᮃᮔᮥ)

    1. that, which
      Anu ieu ― This one

    Tarifit

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    Inherited from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Tashelhit anu.

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    • (Nador) IPA(key): [ɛ.nʊ]
    • Syllabification: a‧nu
    • Rhymes: -ʊ

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    anu m (plural anuten, feminine equivalent tanut, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵏⵓ)

    1. well

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    Inflection of anu
    singular plural
    free state anu anuten
    annexed state wanu wanuten

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    Tashelhit

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    (etymology 1 sense 1)

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    Etymology 1

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      Inherited from Proto-Berber.

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      anu m (plural una, feminine equivalent tanut, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵏⵓ, Arabic spelling آنو)

      2. well
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      Inflection of anu
      singular plural
      free state anu una
      annexed state wanu una
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      • agʷm (“to draw water”)
      • aman (“water”)

      Etymology 2

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

      Verb

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      anu (perfective una, imperfective ttanu, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵏⵓ, Arabic spelling آنو)

      1. (transitive) to macerate (skin in ash)

      References

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      • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 A–E (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN

      Volapük

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      Adverb

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      anu

      1. At this moment (now).
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