different between ayu vs ayn

English

Etymology

From Japanese ? (ayu, “sweetfish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ju?/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• ai

Translations

Anagrams

• Yau

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Noun

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic (plant)

Gorontalo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ju/
• Hyphenation: a?yu
• Rhymes: -ju, -u

Noun

ayu

1. tree
2. wood, timber

Japanese

Romanization

ayu

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

Javanese

Alternative forms

• hayu

Adjective

ayu (krama-ngoko ayu)

1. beautiful, pretty

Noun

ayu (krama-ngoko ayu)

1. beauty

Leonese

Etymology

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

Noun

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic

References

• AEDLL

Malay

Alternative forms

• Ayu

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

ayu (Jawi spelling ????, plural ayu-ayu)

1. dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

Further reading

• “ayu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Taroko

Etymology

From Seediq yayu (“knife”)

Noun

ayu

1. a burn (landform)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n/

Etymology 1

A romanization of the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ? (?ayin), Phoenician (?ayin), Aramaic (??), and Syriac ? (??), Arabic ? (?ayn) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

Noun

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /?/ in Semitic languages.

Etymology 2

A romanization of Kazakh ??? (aïn), the Kazakh name for the letter ? (?).

Noun

ayn (plural ayns)

1. (linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter ?, representing the consonant /?/ or /?/, particularly in Kazakh.

Anagrams

• NAY, NYA, Nay, Yan, any, any%, nay, yan

Italian

Noun

ayn m or f (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of ain

Manx

Pronoun

ayn

1. third-person singular of ayns

   in him/it

   • Cha nel ayn agh craueyn. He is reduced to a skeleton.

Derived terms

• aynsyn (emphatic)

Adverb

ayn

1. there
   • ayn as ass, there and back

Adjective

ayn

1. existent
   • ayn rish foddey, long-standing
2. present