different between chu vs uhu

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

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