du

English Online Dictionary. What means du‎? What does du mean?

Abinomn

Noun

du

1. name

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /du˧/
• (Lianghe) [to³¹]
• (Longchuan) [to³¹]
• (Luxi) [tua⁵¹]
• (Xiandao) [to³¹]

Verb

du

1. to crawl

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[3], Payap University, page 27

Äiwoo

Determiner

du

1. all

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Albanian

Verb

du

1. dialectal form of dua

Alemannic German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Pronoun

du

1. thou, you

Declension

Amanab

Noun

du

1. a kind of bird

Ashkun

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *dū, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu/

Numeral

du (Sanu)

1. two

References

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dúù]

Noun

du

1. household

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/ [d̪u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: du

Verb

du

1. Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German du.

Pronoun

du

1. you (nominative, singular)

See also

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *duβ, from Proto-Celtic *dubus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdyː/

Adjective

du

1. black
2. swollen
3. starved

Mutation

Derived terms

• dua

Noun

du m

1. black

Mutation

Verb

du

1. third-person singular present indicative of duañ

Mutation

See also

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̪u]

Noun

du (plural duwants)

1. yew

See also

• halkaas mamushi
• meenis

References

Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎^[4].

Catalan

Verb

du

1. inflection of dur:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German du, from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū. Cognate with German du, archaic English thou (modern dialectal tha).

Pronoun

du

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) you (thou, singular familiar)

   Bobrall du geast, gedenkhte ber du pist. ― Wherever you go, remember who you are.

Inflection

Sette Comuni:

Luserna:

References

• “du” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *duβ, from Proto-Celtic *dubus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [dyː]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [dɪˑʊ]

Adjective

du

1. black

2. dark

Derived terms

Mutation

See also

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Danish thu, from Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”). Cognate with English thou, Latin tū, Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam), Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬨 (tūm), Russian ты (ty).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥u], [d̥u]

Pronoun

du (objective dig)

1. thou, you (2nd person singular subject pronoun, informal)

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Danish dughæ, from Old Norse duga, from Proto-Germanic *duganą (“to be useful”), cognate with Swedish duga, German taugen, Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (dugan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥uːˀ]

Verb

du (imperative du, present dur or duer, past duede, past participle duet)

1. be good
2. be fit

Conjugation

Dena'ina

Particle

du

1. interrogative particle (placed at the end of the sentence to make a question)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• dou (obsolete, Holland)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/
• Hyphenation: du
• Rhymes: -y

Pronoun

du

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Second-person singular informal pronoun; thou

Usage notes

• Du was already falling out of general use in early modern Dutch. It was still relatively common in the oblique cases, in vocatives or close to vocative appositions and when indicating contempt.
• The corresponding verbal ending was -st. The present form of zijn was bist, for hebben the present forms hebst and hest were in use. When the nominative directly followed the verb, contraction usually occurred: -stu; bistu, hebstu.

Declension

• Nominative: du, dou, douw
• Oblique: dij, dy
• Possessive: dijn, dyn

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate with Swedish du.

Pronoun

du

1. you (singular), thou

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin duo, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Numeral

du

1. two (2)

Derived terms

• duo
• dupunkto (“colon”)

Fala

Alternative forms

• do (Mañegu)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese do, equivalent to de (“of”) +‎ u (masculine singular definite article).

Contraction

du m sg (plural dus, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) of the

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[5], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French del. The expected modern form would be *deau or *deu, but it underwent stronger contraction, due to its unstressed use. Akin to Galician do, Portuguese do, Sicilian dû, Italian and Spanish del.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [d͡zy], [d͡zʏ]
• Homophones: dû, due, dues, dus, dût

Contraction

du

1. contraction of de + le (“of the”)

Usage notes

• Only used before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with consonants; before vowel-initial words, the form de l' is used, e.g., as seen above, de l'imparfait.

Related terms

• duquel

Article

du m sg (feminine singular de la, plural des)

1. Forms the partitive article.

   Il mange du pain. ― He eats bread. / He eats some bread.

Usage notes

• The partitive article is used with uncountable nouns instead of the indefinite article (which is only used with countable nouns). English and most other European languages do not use any article in such cases.
• Like the indefinite article, the partitive article becomes simple de with grammatical objects in negated sentences: Il ne mange pas de pain. (“He doesn't eat bread.”)
• After the actual preposition de (“of, from”), the partitive article is deleted. So one can never say *de du or *de de la.

Further reading

• “du”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gaikundi

Noun

du

1. man

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Alternative forms

• Du

Etymology

From Middle High German du, duo, dū, from Old High German dū (akin to Old Saxon thū and English thou), itself from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• (stressed) IPA^(key): /duː/

• Rhymes: -uː

• (unstressed, standard) IPA^(key): /du/
• (unstressed, colloquial) IPA^(key): /də/
• After the second person singular verb ending -st, the /d/ is generally lost when the pronoun is unstressed. Thus hast du is pronounced [ˈhast‿u] even in purposefully enunciated speech.
• In colloquial speech, chiefly of northern and central Germany, the /d/ can be lost after any preceding coronal. Thus wenn du may be pronounced [ˈvɛn‿u] or [ˈvɛn‿ə].

Pronoun

du

1. you (singular familiar), thou

Usage notes

• Du is the informal second person pronoun. In formal speech, the third person plural Sie (always capitalised) is used instead.
• A general rule of thumb is that du is used to address one's friends, relatives, and those under about 16 years of age. Du is always used to address children and non-human beings.
• Usage also depends on the setting: two unacquainted, middle-aged persons are likely to use du when they meet at social gatherings, but much less so when they happen on each other in the street. People under 30 often use du among each other, but they still use Sie when one of them is at work, e.g. in a shop (some cafés and most pubs are an exception).
• There is also a great deal of (often subtle) regional variation throughout the German-speaking world.

Declension

Derived terms

• duzen
• Du n

Further reading

• “du” in Duden online
• “du” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Gothic

Romanization

du

1. romanization of 𐌳𐌿

Gun

Alternative forms

• ɖù (Benin)

Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *ɖu. Cognates include Fon ɖù, Saxwe Gbe ɖù, Adja ɖù, Ewe ɖu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɖù/

Verb

dù (Nigeria)

1. to eat
2. to bite

   Àgọ̀sú hò àvún dàhó dé bọ̀ àvún wá dù ví étọ̀n ― Agosu bought a certain big dog and the dog eventually bit his child

3. to win

Derived terms

References

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• tuu (Wiesemann spelling)

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German dū (akin to Old Saxon thū and English thou), itself from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuː/, /tə/

Pronoun

du

1. thou, you

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto du, from French deux, Spanish dos, Italian due, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Numeral

du

1. two (2)

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English do.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Verb

du

1. to do

Further reading

• du at majstro.com

Japanese

Romanization

du

1. The katakana syllable ドゥ (du) in Hepburn-like romanization.

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit द्व (dva), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Hindi दो (do), Bhojpuri दू (dū), Konkani दोन (don).

Numeral

du

1. two (2)

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *d(u)u̯ō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Latvian divi. Cognate to Latin duo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d̪ʊ]

Numeral

dù m (feminine dvi̇̀)

1. two (2)

Declension

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьdǫ (first-person singular) and *jьdǫtь (third-person plural), inflected forms of *jьti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Verb

du

1. inflection of hyś:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. third-person plural present

Synonyms

• (first-person singular): źom

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/, [du(ː)]

Pronoun

du

1. second-person singular, informal, nominative: you, thou

   Wéi al bass du? ― How old are you?

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

du

1. nonstandard spelling of dū
2. nonstandard spelling of dú
3. nonstandard spelling of dǔ
4. nonstandard spelling of dù

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyː/, /dy/
• (Limburg) IPA^(key): /duː/, /du/

Pronoun

du

1. thou, you (singular, informal)

   Synonym: gi

Usage notes

This pronoun began to be replaced by gi in formal address during the Middle Dutch period, and eventually fell out of use altogether.

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: (obsolete) du, dou, douw
• Limburgish: doe

Further reading

• “du”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “du”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Adjective

du

1. alternative form of dewe (“due”)

Middle High German

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, whence also Old English þū, Old Norse þú, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

du or dû

1. (personal) you (thou, singular familiar)

Inflection

Descendants

• Alemannic German: du

  Swabian: dau, d

• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: du

  Mòcheno: du

• Central Franconian: du, dou

  Hunsrik: du

  Kölsch: do

• German: du
• Luxembourgish: du
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: du

  Pennsylvania German: du

• Yiddish: דו (du)

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon thū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː/

Pronoun

dû

1. thou, you (second person singular nominative)

Declension

Descendants

• du

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German du, from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū. Cognate with German du, archaic English thou (modern dialectal tha).

Pronoun

du

1. you (thou, singular familiar)

Inflection

References

• “du” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Mokilese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu/

Verb

du

1. (intransitive) to sink

Derived terms

• kadu

Norman

Etymology

From Latin dux, ducem.

Noun

du m

1. duke

Related terms

• duchie

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• düünj (Mooring)
• dö (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian dwā, from Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognates include West Frisian dwaan, English do.

Verb

du

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to do
2. (Föhr-Amrum) to give

Conjugation

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dwáH (compare Persian دو (do), Pashto دوه (dwa), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀 (duua)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Marathi दोन (don), Hindi दो (do)/Urdu دو (do), Punjabi ਦੋ (do)), from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spanish dos, English two).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊ/
• Hyphenation: du
• Rhymes: -ʊ

Numeral

du

1. two (2)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː/

Pronoun

dū

1. accusative/genitive of don

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þú (“you”), from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʉː/, [dÿː]

Pronoun

du (objective case deg)

1. thou, you (second person, singular)

Derived terms

• due (“to say 'you' to someone”)

Verb

du

1. imperative of due

References

• “du” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Akin to English thou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʉː/

Pronoun

du (objective case deg)

1. you, thou (second person, singular)

References

• “du” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

See also

Nupe

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dū/

Verb

du

1. to boil

   Musa dàdà á nakàn du ― Musa quickly boiled the meat

2. to brew

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dù/

Verb

dù

1. (of rain) to fall

   Ele è dù à ― It's not raining (literally, “Rain is not falling”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dū/

Verb

du

1. to shake

Obokuitai

Noun

du

1. bird

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• del

Contraction

du

1. contraction of de + le (of the)

Old High German

Alternative forms

• thū, ᛞᚢ (du)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, whence also Old English þū, Old Norse þú, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Perhaps the earliest attestation of the pronoun is the inscription on the Bülach fibula, which may show ᛞᚢ (du) already differentiated from other Germanic languages’ þu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː/

Pronoun

dū

1. thou, you (second-person singular pronoun)
   • 6th-7th century, inscription on the Bülach fibula:

Usage notes

Some speakers of Old High German appear to have contrasted the "polite" singular (plural forms) with the regular, informal singular (singular forms), as in New High German (Modern German) Sie versus du. This distinction is however not well-attested, and may have been regional, genre-dependent, or only in Late Old High German.

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle High German: du
  • Alemannic German: du

    Swabian: dau, d

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: du

    Mòcheno: du

  • Central Franconian: du, dou

    Hunsrik: du

    Kölsch: do

  • German: du
  • Luxembourgish: du
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: du

    Pennsylvania German: du

  • Yiddish: דו (du)

References

• Heinz Klingenberg, Runenfibel von Bülach, Kanton Zürich. Liebesinschrift aus alemannischer Frühzeit, in the Alemannisches Jahrbuch (1973/75), page 308
• Heinz Klingenberg, Die Runeninschrift aus Bülach, in Helvetia archaeologica, volume 7 (1976), pages 116–121
• Stephan Opitz, Südgermanische Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark aus der Merowingerzeit (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977)

Old Irish

Preposition

du

1. alternative form of do

Mutation

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German du, English thou, Swedish du.

Pronoun

du

1. you, thou

Declension

Pite Sami

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Pronoun

du

1. those

See also

References

• Joshua Wilbur (2014) A grammar of Pite Saami, Berlin: Language Science Press

Plautdietsch

Pronoun

du (oblique die)

1. you (singular)

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin dŭo (“two”).

Pronunciation

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈduː]

• (Ville Unite):

Numeral

du (feminine dó)

1. two

References

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, pages 189, 194

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du]

Verb

du

1. second-person singular imperative of duce

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/
• Hyphenation: du
• Rhymes: -u

Pronoun

du (oblique die)

1. thou, you

Usage notes

• du is at times omitted when used with a verb.

See also

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “du”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scots

Pronoun

du (objective case dee, vocative dee, possessive determiner dines)

1. Northern Isles form of thou (“thou”)

Further reading

“du”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology 1

From English do.

Verb

du

1. to do

Noun

du

1. deed, action

Etymology 2

Probably from Ewe ɖú (“dance”), Fon ɖùwè (“dance”).

Noun

du

1. (historical) a festival of song and dance organised and performed by and for enslaved people

Descendants

• → Dutch: doe

References

Sumerian

Romanization

du

1. romanization of 𒁺 (du)

Swedish

Alternative forms

• dhu, thu, tu, tv (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Swedish þū, from Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate with English thou, German du.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʉː/, [d̪ʉː], (unstressed) /dɵ/
• Rhymes: -ʉː

Pronoun

du

1. you (singular subjective case)
   1. thou (if fitting for the context)
3. Used as a vocative (to get someone's attention, or for emphasis or the like); hey

Usage notes

While du is the traditionally familiar mode of address, it is since the early '70s the standard in almost all circumstances, possibly capitalized in formal communications. This was the result of the so-called du-reformen.

Recently, use of the second-person plural pronoun ni as a less familiar (and thus more formal) pronoun has appeared to some extent, but mainly amongst shopkeepers towards customers.

The same pronoun ni has also been used historically as a formal way of address, but its use has (in particular in Sweden, not so much in Swedish-speaking parts of Finland) been restricted to addressing people of lower social status, whereby a plethora of different constructions were employed as to avoid the issue of pronouns whatsoever. See also the article about T-V distinction in Wikipedia.

Declension

Derived terms

• dua
• duskål

See also

• hallå ("Hey!", more literally)
• ni (“you (plural subjective case)”)
• öh (also used to get someone's attention)

References

• du in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• du in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• du in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• UD

Tlingit

Pronoun

du

1. his/her

See also

• hú

Tregami

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *dū, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu/

Numeral

du (Gambir)

1. two

References

Venetan

Etymology

Compare Italian due

Numeral

du m

1. two

Synonyms

• dó

Vietnamese

Etymology

Both characters below depict a single etymology. 遊 (MC yuw) also has a less common reading do, now seen only in do thám.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧]

Romanization

du

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 遊
2. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 游

Derived terms

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *duβ, from Proto-Celtic *dubus, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /dɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /diː/
• Homophone: dŷ; (South Wales) di
• Rhymes: -ɨː

Adjective

du (feminine singular du, plural duon, equative dued, comparative duach, superlative duaf)

1. black

Derived terms

• du a gwyn (“black and white; piebald”)
• twll du (“black hole”)
• tyngu'r du yn wyn (“to swear black is white”)

Related terms

• düwch

Mutation

See also

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du˧/

Adjective

du

1. smooth

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dù/

Verb

dù

1. to scramble for, to compete

   wọ́n du oúnjẹ ― They scrambled for food

Usage notes

• du before a direct object

Derived terms

• ìdu
• ìjàdù (“scramble; struggle”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dū/

Verb

du

1. (Lagos, intransitive) to run, to sprint

   Synonym: sá

Derived terms

• ìdu

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dú/

Verb

dú

1. (intransitive, of a person or animal) to bleed

   Synonyms: dújẹ̀, ṣẹ̀jẹ̀

Derived terms

• ìdú (“the act of bleeding”)

Etymology 4

Cognate with Igala dú

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dú/

Verb

dú

1. to be black, to be dark

   Antonym: fun

   ó dú láwọ̀ ― Her skin is dark

Derived terms