ayu

ayu

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ayu terms

From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːjuː/

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ayu (usually uncountable, plural ayus)

1. A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

• ai

• Yau

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

ayu

1. (Chungli) to put

• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 151

From Latin allium.

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic (plant)

From Old Balinese ayu, from Old Javanese hayu (“good, happiness, beauty”).

• IPA^(key): /aju/

ayu (Balinese script ᬳᬬᬸ)

1. good
2. beautiful

• “ayu”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw.

• IPA^(key): /a.ju/
• Hyphenation: a‧yu

ayu

1. tree
2. wood, timber

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• IPA^(key): /ā.jú/

ayú (plural ayú lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. leather

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.júː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔɛ̀.júː]

àyū m (possessed form àyun)

1. manatee, (in particular) the African manatee

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaju/ [ˈa.ju]
• Rhymes: -aju
• Syllabification: a‧yu

Inherited from Malay ayu, from Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, “beautiful, pretty”), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (“good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness”).

ayu (comparative lebih ayu, superlative paling ayu)

1. beautiful, pretty
2. lovely

ayu (plural ayu-ayu or para ayu)

1. alternative form of yayu

• “ayu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ayu

1. Rōmaji transcription of あゆ
2. Rōmaji transcription of アユ

ayu

1. romanization of ꦲꦪꦸ

Inherited from Latin ālium

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic

• “ayu”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2026

• Ayu

From Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, “beautiful, pretty”), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (“good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness”).

• IPA^(key): /aju/
• Rhymes: -aju, -ju, -u

ayu (Jawi spelling ايو, comparative lebih ayu, superlative paling ayu)

1. dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

• > Indonesian: ayu (inherited)

• "ayu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Probably from Sanskrit आयु (āyu, “living; lifetime”), thus doublet of ayuh and hayu. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ayu

1. harmony
2. alternative spelling of hayu (“good, happiness; welfare; beauty”)
3. alternative form of ayuh, āyuṣa

• "ayu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From Seediq yayu (“knife”).

ayu

1. a burn (landform)

• aáyù

Probably from Portuguese alho

• IPA^(key): /ā.jù/

ayù

1. garlic