aru

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/ [ˈʔʌɾʊ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

áru m 

1. (geography, astronomy) crater

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

aru

1. language

• Official translation of the Constitución Política del Estado, Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional, 2016

aru

1. two

• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Stokhof (1975)

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

aru

1. rice

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974) Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 77

From Proto-Finnic *arvo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arwa (“price, value”), of Indo-Iranic origin. Cognate to Finnish arvo.

aru (genitive aru, partitive aru)

1. reason

Declension of aru (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aru	arud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aru
genitive			arude
partitive		aru	arusid
illative		arru arusse	arudesse
inessive		arus	arudes
elative		arust	arudest
allative		arule	arudele
adessive		arul	arudel
ablative		arult	arudelt
translative		aruks	arudeks
terminative		aruni	arudeni
essive		aruna	arudena
abessive		aruta	arudeta
comitative		aruga	arudega

aru

1. Rōmaji transcription of ある

Cognate with Aymara aru

aru

1. to speak

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

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aru (intensive aorist yettaru, aorist yaru, preterite yura, negative preterite yuri, verbal noun tira)

1. to write

   Ttarun tibratin.

   They're writing letters.

• ttwaru

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : aru

From Proto-Austronesian *walu.

aru

1. eight

aru

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of art

From Proto-Polynesian *alu.

aru

1. chase
2. pursuit

aru (passive arumia)

1. to chase
2. to follow, pursue

• “aru” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

aru

1. third-person plural present indicative of vara

aru

1. more (to make comparisons)

aru

1. forest

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a hole

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a wooden spoon

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. (stative) to be complete

Conjugation of aru
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	toaru	foaru	miaru
2nd	noaru	niaru
3rd	Masculine	oaru	iaru, yoaru†
Feminine	moaru
Neuter	iaru
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh