kulu

kulu (tone kùlu)

1. hill, mountain, cliff

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

kulu

1. nose

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́dʊ́.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkú.ɽu/

-kúlu

1. big
2. great

From Proto-Finnic *kulu. Equivalent to kulua (“to wear, be spent”) +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkulu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧lu

kulu

1. (usually in the plural) expense, cost, expenditure

• (one expenditure): kustannus

kulu

1. worn

• “kulu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuluˣ/, [ˈkulu(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧lu

kulu

1. inflection of kulua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• luku, ulku

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Oceanic *turuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuduq, from Proto-Austronesian *tuduq (“to drip; to leak”).

kulu

1. a drop
2. a general name for distilled liquor
3. (figurative) a disparaging term for a chief whose mother was said to be a commoner
4. (in extension) dysentery; gonorrhea

kulu (transitive, intransitive)

1. to drip; to leak
2. to flow (as tears)

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Oceanic *turus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *turus (“stake; free-standing post”).

kulu

1. post; stick (timber used in houses)

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “kulu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

From Proto-Finnic *kulu, equivalent to kullua (“to spend”) +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish kulu and Estonian kulu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: ku‧lu

kulu

1. expense

• mänö

Borrowed from Estonian kulu. Doublet of kulo, the native equivalent.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: ku‧lu

kulu

1. Synonym of kulo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkuɫu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: ku‧lu

kulu

1. inflection of kullua:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. second-person singular imperative connegative

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 217

Probably related to kållå, a dialectal variant of kole (“fish oil lamp”).

• IPA^(key): /kʉlʉ/

kulu f

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) A fire basket

• lysterkorg

From Proto-Polynesian *kulu.

kulu

1. breadfruit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ, compare Malay kulur.

kulu

1. breadfruit

• IPA^(key): /kʊˈlu/
• Hyphenation: ku‧lu

kulu

1. accusative singular of kul
2. third-person singular possessive of kul

From Proto-Oceanic *kuluʀ with irregular loss of *ʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ.

• IPA^(key): /kulu/

kulu

1. breadfruit

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kuluR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

From Proto-Finnic *kulu, equivalent to kuluda +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish kulu.

kulu

1. worn-out

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “изношенный”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika