different between ahu vs uhu

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

Interjection

uhu

1. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of uh-huh
2. (nonstandard) Alternative spelling of yoo-hoo
3. Expression of mild surprise or disappointment.

See also

• uh-uh
• uh, oh

Barasana

Noun

uhu

1. master

Derived terms

• oko uhu

References

• 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?uhu]
• Hyphenation: uhu
• Rhymes: -hu

Noun

uhu (plural uhuk)

1. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

Declension

Further reading

• uhu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Interjection

uhu

1. Alternative spelling of uh
   • 1945, Elio Vittorini, Uomini e no, Mondadori, 1972, p. 165:

     «Uhu!» disse Blut.
     «Anch'io lo dico. Uhu! Bisogna che tu cambi.»

See also

• oh-oh
• uh-uh

Kambera

Noun

uhu

1. rice

References

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 134

Portuguese

Interjection

uhu!

1. (Brazil) woohoo!

Quechua

Noun

uhu

1. cough

Declension

See also

• uhuy

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

uhu

1. hoot (cry made by an owl)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

uhu (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. dative/locative singular of uho

Veps

Etymology

Akin to Finnish uuhi.

Noun

uhu

1. young ewe

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika