different between ulu vs uhu

English

Etymology

From Inuktitut ?? (ulu, “woman's knife”).

Noun

ulu (plural ulus or uluit)

1. An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.
2. Anglicized spelling of ?ulu (Hawaiian for breadfruit)

Translations

Anagrams

• Luu

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Common Turkic *ulug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [u??u]
• Hyphenation: u?lu

Adjective

ulu

1. great (magnificent)
2. great (degree of kinship)

3. ancient

   Synonym: q?dim

4. (linguistics, genetics) proto-

Further reading

• “ulu” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Noun

ulu inan

1. bay

Derived terms

• ulu egin

See also

• badia
• ereinotz
• erramu
• zaunka

Chamorro

Etymology

From Pre-Chamorro *?ulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

From Lower Chinook ulu, a noun meaning hunger in the Lower Chinook language

Adjective

ulu

1. hungry

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English wool.

Noun

?lù m (possessed form ?lùn)

1. wool
2. wool thread

Synonyms

• (wool): wul

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. growth
2. grove
3. flock

Derived terms

• ulu h?k?

Verb

ulu

1. (intransitive) to grow

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *huru (compare Maori uru), from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *surup (compare Javanese surup).

Verb

ulu

1. (intransitive) to inspire; to be possessed by a god

Ido

Pronoun

ulu

1. someone

Inuktitut

Noun

ulu

1. Latin spelling of ?? (ulu)

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

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

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Makasar

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *quluh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ulu]

Noun

ulu (Lontara spelling ????)

1. head

Matigsalug Manobo

Etymology

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

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.lu/

Noun

ulu m

1. locative/vocative singular of ul

Pukapukan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

Noun

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Further reading

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

Turkish

Etymology

From Common Turkic *ulug.

Adjective

ulu (comparative daha ulu, superlative en ulu)

1. supreme, great, holy

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