aru

Clipping of English Arua.

aru

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Arua terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ru/

aru

1. sharp

• SIL International (2020), “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/ [ˈʔʌɾʊ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

áru m

1. (geography, astronomy) crater

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

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

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /a˥.ɾu˩/, [a˥.ɾu˩]

aru

1. (Chungli) to come

   Synonym: (Mongsen) ra

• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 11

aru

1. language

• Official translation of the Constitución Política del Estado, Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional, 2016

aru

1. two

• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Stokhof (1975)

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

aru

1. rice

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974), Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 77

From Proto-Finnic *arvo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arwa (“price, value”), of Indo-Iranic origin. Cognate to Finnish arvo.

aru (genitive aru, partitive aru)

1. reason

Declension of aru (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aru	arud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aru
genitive			arude
partitive		aru	arusid
illative		arru arusse	arudesse
inessive		arus	arudes
elative		arust	arudest
allative		arule	arudele
adessive		arul	arudel
ablative		arult	arudelt
translative		aruks	arudeks
terminative		aruni	arudeni
essive		aruna	arudena
abessive		aruta	arudeta
comitative		aruga	arudega

aru

1. Rōmaji transcription of ある
2. Rōmaji transcription of アル

Cognate with Aymara aru.

aru

1. to speak

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăʔrəβ (“to write”).

Cognate with Ghadames orəβ (“to write”), Tarifit ari (“to write”), and Tashelhit ara (“to write”).

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru (verbal noun tira)

1. to write

   Synonyms: kteb, jerrer

   Ttarun tibratin.

   They're writing letters.

2. to be written

   Synonyms: ttwaru, ttwikteb

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[4], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : aru

From Proto-Austronesian *walu.

aru

1. eight

aru

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of art

From Proto-Polynesian *alu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/ [ˈɐɾʉ]

aru

1. chase
2. pursuit

aru (passive arumia)

1. to chase
2. to follow, pursue

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

aru

1. (Lincolnshire and West Riding) alternative form of arwe

• earun, earon

aru

1. (contraction) Northumbrian form of earon

aru

1. third-person plural present indicative of vara

• IPA^(key): [aˈɾu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

aru (first-person singular active indicative aîaru, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîaruî, noun aru) (transitive)

1. to impede
2. to harm

aru (?)

1. Surinam toad (Pipa pipa)

• Nheengatu: arú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: aru

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aru

1. first-person active indicative of eru

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “aru”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 63, columns 1–2

Borrowed from Old Tupi aru.

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

aru m (plural arus)

1. (Amazonas) Surinam toad (Pipa pipa)

   Synonyms: sapo-aru, sapo-do-surinã, sapo-pipa

   • 1949 June, Francisco Schaden, “Índios e caboclos: Páginas de etnografia, sociologia e folclore”, in Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume CXXV, year XV, São Paulo: FFCL-USP, O pão dos índios (section 2), page 31:

     O aru, sapo de forma achatada, vive de preferência nas clareiras da mata e nas plantações, mas nestas últimas sòmente quando limpas e bem cuidadas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “aru”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aru”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “aru”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “aru”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

aru

1. more (to make comparisons)

aru

1. forest

Inherited from Proto-Berber *arəw (“to give birth”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵔⵡ (arw, “to give birth”), Ghomara and Tashelhit aru (“to give birth”), Kabyle arew (“to give birth”), Ghadames árəw (“to give birth, to produce”), Awjila ə̀ṛəw (“to give birth”), Tuareg àrəw (“to give birth”), Zenaga ärug (“to give birth, to produce”), and Egyptian jwr (“to conceive”).

aru (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ)

1. (transitive) to birth, to give birth
2. (transitive) to lay eggs
3. (transitive) to produce fruit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Proto-Berber *arəw (“to give birth”)^[1], ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic [Term?].

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵔⵡ (arw, “to give birth”), Ghomara and Tarifit aru (“to give birth”), Kabyle arew (“to give birth”), Ghadames árəw (“to give birth, to produce”), Awjila ə̀ṛəw (“to give birth”), Tuareg àrəw (“to give birth”), Zenaga ärug (“to give birth, to produce”), and Egyptian jwr (“to conceive”).

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru (intensive aorist ttaru, preterite uru, verbal noun arra, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling آرو)

1. to give birth, to bear (a child)

   اورا تّارو تمغارت اد.

   ur a ttaru tmġart ad.

   this woman is sterile (lit. this woman does not give birth.)

2. to lay (eggs)

   آبايح ار يتّارو تيڭلاي نّس غ لوضا.

   abayḥ ar ittaru tiglay nns ġ luḍa.

   the partridge lays its eggs in uncultivated, fallow land.

3. to produce, to bear fruits (trees, plants)

   تاسافت ار تّارو وادرنا. ― tasaft ar ttaru wadrna ― the oak bears acorns.

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

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru m (plural irattn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling آرو)

1. the smell given off by some types of fish

   آر اس تّينين علي يجّان اشكو يراتّن نس ور فولكين.

   ar as ttinin ʕli ij̣j̣an ašku irattn ns ur fulkin.

   He’s called Ali the stinky because he smells bad.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a hole

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a wooden spoon

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. (stative) to be complete

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh