کاجو

Borrowed from Portuguese caju, borrowed from Old Tupi akaîu, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akaju. First attested in c. 1708^[1].

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɑː.d͡ʒuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: کا‧جُو

کاجُو • (kājū) m (Hindi spelling काजू)

1. cashew nut
2. cashew (Anacardium occidentale)

• → Kashmiri: کاجوٗ (kājū)
• → Punjabi: kājū

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਾਜੂ

  Shahmukhi script: کاجُو

• → Pashto: کاجو (kāju)

• “کاجو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کاجو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “کاجو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “کاجو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.