different between kuru vs cannibalism

English

Etymology

From Fore [Term?], literally meaning “shaking death”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??u?/

Noun

kuru (uncountable)

1. A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 273:

     By the kate 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

Synonyms

• laughing death
• laughing sickness

Translations

Anagrams

• Uruk, ruku'

Ainu

Alternative forms

• (apocopic) kur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kù??ú/
• (rendaku) IPA^(key): /?ù??ú/

Noun

kuru (Kana spelling ??, plural utara)

1. (with modifiers) person

Usage notes

This word is similar in usage to Japanese ?(??) (mono), in the sense that it cannot stand in a sentence as an independent word and is never used without a modifier.

See also

• pe (“thing”)

Ajië

Verb

kuru

1. sleep

References

• Handschuh, Corinna (2014) A typology of marked-S languages

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuru/

Noun

kuru

1. dative singular of kur
2. locative singular of kur

Esperanto

Verb

kuru

1. imperative of kuri

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *kuru, from Proto-Oceanic *kuruq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *guruq.

Noun

kuru (plural kurukuru)

1. thunder (sound caused by a lightning)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuru/, [?kuru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Syllabification: ku?ru

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kuru (compare Estonian kuru), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kure (compare Komi-Zyrian ??? (kyr), Eastern Mari ????? (kuryk), Khanty ??? (kor)).

Noun

kuru

1. (geography) gorge, gulch, ravine, flume (narrow v-shaped valley, often with water running through)
2. canyon

Declension

Synonyms

• kanjoni

Derived terms

• tunturikuru

Etymology 2

From English kuru, from Fore [Term?].

Noun

kuru

1. (medicine) kuru.

Declension

See also

• kare
• kuri

Anagrams

• urku

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese couro.

Noun

kuru

1. skin
2. leather

Japanese

Romanization

kuru

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ????

Adjective

kuru (ngoko kuru, krama kera)

1. skinny

Latvian

Pronoun

kuru

1. accusative singular masculine form of kurš
2. instrumental singular masculine form of kurš
3. genitive plural masculine form of kurš
4. accusative singular feminine form of kurš
5. instrumental singular feminine form of kurš
6. genitive plural feminine form of kurš

Verb

kuru

1. 1st person singular present indicative form of kurt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kuru/

Noun

kuru

1. accusative singular of kura
2. instrumental singular of kura

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kulu?.

Noun

kuru

1. breadfruit

Ngan'gityemerri

Noun

kuru

1. (Ngan'gimerri) water

Synonyms

• kuri (Ngan'gikurunggurr)

References

• Tryon, Darrell T. (1970) An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (quoted online in ASJP)

Pitjantjatjara

Noun

kuru

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Portuguese

Noun

kuru m (uncountable)

1. kuru (central nervous system disease among the Fore people)

Quechua

Noun

kuru

1. worm, caterpillar

Declension

Rasawa

Noun

kuru

1. woman

Further reading

• Palmer, Bill (2017) The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, ?ISBN, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages, page 531

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-k??d??.

Adjective

-kúrú

1. big, large
2. great
3. adult

Antonyms

• (all senses): -diki

Derived terms

• ukuru (“greatness”)

Inflection

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kuru]

Noun

kuru f

1. accusative singular of kura

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ?????. Cognate with Azerbaijani quru.

Adjective

kuru (comparative daha kuru, superlative en kuru)

1. dry
2. emaciated
3. depleted

Antonyms

• ya?
• nemli

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “????”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485

Etymology 2

Noun

kuru

1. definite accusative singular of kur

English

Etymology

cannibal +? -ism

Noun

cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)

1. The act of eating another of one's own species.
2. (figuratively) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
3. In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• kuru
• mad cow disease
• prion

References

• cannibalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia