nui

nui

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ngumbi terms

• IPA^(key): /nɥi/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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nui (intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of nuire

• uni

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.i/, [ˈnu.wi]

nui

1. plenty, a lot, size, dimension, number, area
2. group, before nouns

   nui manō ― group of sharks

nui

1. (stative) big, great, abundant

From Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi, Sicilian nui, Dalmatian nu.

nui

1. we

From nu (“well”) +‎ i (“too”). Akin to Samogitian noi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnùi̯]
• Hyphenation: nui

nui

1. yes, that's right

• tai

• Nicole Nau (2011), A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

nui

1. nonstandard spelling of nuí

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnui/ [ˈnʉi]

nui

1. big

• punua (“small, little”)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *(h)nu(u)y.

nui (stem II nuih)

1. to smile
2. to laugh

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “nui”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Cognate with Minica Huitoto nui and Nüpode Huitoto nui.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnui̯]
• Hyphenation: nui

nui

1. anaconda, boa

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 194

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.

nui

1. big, great

• Rapa Nui
• nui nui

From Latin nūbes. Compare Italian nube and nuvola.

nui

1. (Campidanese) cloud

From Latin nōs. Compare Italian noi.

nui

1. we

• The pronoun nui is rarely used in Sicilian by itself. Instead, the preferred forms combine nui (“we”) and àutri (“others”), such as nuàutri.^[1]

• ni
• vui

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan nuí, O'odham ñuvĭ.

nui (plural nunnui)

1. turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016), Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[3] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 136

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *nui.

nui

1. (archaic) big

Largely replaced by rahi, except in some common compounds like Tahiti nui.

• Lemaître, Yves (1995), Lexique du tahitien contemporain [Current Tahitian lexicon]‎^[4] (in French), Paris: Éditions de l'Orstom, →ISBN
• “nui” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

From French nouille (“noodle”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nuj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nuj˧˧]

nui

1. macaroni

   nui xào bò ― stir-fried macaroni with beef

• Not to be confused with nuy.