different between ahu vs chu

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian ???? (âhu).

Noun

ahu (plural ahus)

1. The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Rapa Nui ahu.

Noun

ahu (plural ahus)

1. On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hau, Hua

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?u/

Noun

ahu m (masc. plural ahubii, fem. ahuko, fem. plural ahubee) (Note: the form after a determiner is ahu)

1. skin (fem. = thick or piece of skin)

Kambera

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.

Noun

ahu

1. dog (animal)

Kisar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.

Noun

ahu

1. dog (animal)

Komodo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

Pronoun

ahu

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

Mayoyao Ifugao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *asu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.

Noun

áso

1. dog (animal)

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

ahu

1. second/third-person singular aorist active of hoti (“to be”)

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u/

Noun

ahu

1. mouth

Portuguese

Noun

ahu m (plural ahus)

1. (rare) ahu (stone platform for moai)

Rapa Nui

Noun

ahu

1. stone platform for mo'ai

Spanish

Noun

ahu m (plural ahus)

1. ahu, stone platform for mo'ai

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

Pronoun

ahu

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

English

Etymology

From the Japanese ??? (chu', onomatopoeia).

Interjection

chu

1. (anime and manga fandom slang) The sound of a kiss.

See also

• mwah
• smooch

Anagrams

• UHC, huc

Esperanto

Particle

chu

1. H-system spelling of ?u

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y/

Etymology 1

Past participle of choir. From Old French cheü, chaü, from a Vulgar Latin root *cad?tu(s) as the past participle of *cad?re, from Latin cad?. Compare Occitan casut, Spanish caído, Italian caduto, Catalan caigut, Romanian c?zut.

Verb

chu m (feminine singular chue, masculine plural chus, feminine plural chues)

1. past participle of choir

Related terms

• déchu

Etymology 2

Contraction of je +? suis.

Alternative forms

• chui, chuis, j'suis

Phrase

chu

1. (Quebec, colloquial) I am.

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

chu

1. beer, alcohol

Guerrero Amuzgo

Noun

chu

1. year

Hän

Alternative forms

• chuu (Alaska)

Noun

chu

1. (Canada) water

Japanese

Romanization

chu

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

chu (Zhuyin ???)

1. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of chú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ch?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of chù.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Min Nan

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English chew.

Verb

chu

1. chew

Norman

Adjective

chu (masculine before vowel chut, feminine chute, masculine plural chus, feminine plural chutes)

1. (France, Jersey) this

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t????/

Noun

chu (plural ndyu)

1. year

Derived terms

• chu jndyo

References

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)?^[4] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t??u??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t???w??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [c?w??]

Etymology 1

Verb

chu

1. (of lips) to protrude

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from ?.

Adjective

chu

1. (only in compounds) thorough; meticulous

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /???/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?i?/
• Homophone: chi (South Wales only)

Adjective

chu

1. Aspirate mutation of cu.

Mutation