kuzu

From Japanese 葛(くず) (kuzu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːzu/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːzu
• Hyphenation: ku‧zu

kuzu (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kudzu.

kuzu

1. Rōmaji transcription of くず

kuzu m (plural kuzus)

1. kudzu

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوزی (kuzı, kuzu, “lamb”), from Proto-Turkic *koŕï (“lamb”).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈzu/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ku‧zu

kuzu (definite accusative kuzuyu, plural kuzular)

1. lamb, sheepling, yeanling, a little or young sheep
2. small mudbrick abouth half the size of a normal one
3. (botany) small fruit or vegetable attached to a larger one
4. synonym of yavru (“baby animal, cub”)

• “kuzu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “kuzu”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kuzu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2877
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “karga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük