uru

uru

1. day

uru

1. moon

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 164

uru

1. medicine

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uru

1. chief

uru

1. Rōmaji transcription of うる

uru

1. deer

• Pilar M. Valenzuela, Carlos Gussenhoven, Shiwilu (Jebero), Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43 (1) (2013)

uru

1. cooked rice

• IPA^(key): /u.ru/, [ʉ.ɾʉ]

From Proto-Polynesian *huru (compare with Tahitian uru, Samoan ulu, Tongan hū),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *huru (compare with Fijian curu) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *surup (“enter, penetrate”) – compare with Malay surup (“to possess”) and Javanese surup (“ibid., to enter”), Tagalog sulop (“to seep, to penetrate”).^[2][3]

uru (passive urua or uruhina)

1. to enter, go in
2. to possess
3. to enlist, enrol, join, be included
   • 2020, Jeff Kinney, translated by Hēni Jacob, Te Rātaka a Tama Hūngoingoi Ko Rodrick Kei Runga:

     Kei te whakaaro a Pāpā taihoa au ka toa ki te kauhoe, koia au i tohua ai kia uru i ia raumati.

     Dad's got this idea that I'm destined to be a great swimmer or something, so that's why he makes me join the team every summer.

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu,^[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu (compare with Malay hulu, Tagalog ulo) from Proto-Austronesian *quluh (“head”).^[2]

uru

1. head (in the singular)

   Synonym: upoko

2. chief, leader

   Ko wai te uru o tēnei ope?

   Who is the leader of this party?

3. top, upper end
4. point (of a weapon, etc.)
5. hair (of the head, in the plural)

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *uru (“southwesterly wind”);^[1] perhaps originally a semantic extension of Etymology 1.

No words for the cardinal directions can be unambiguously reconstructed for Proto-Polynesian, as there would be little use for them on the small Polynesian islands. However, on the much larger North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu) of New Zealand, the usefulness of such terminology led the Māori to adopt this word for "west".^[2]

uru

1. west

   Synonyms: (rare) wēta, (obsolete) [Term?]

(compass points)

tapatapātiu	tokerau, raki	kārapu
uru		rāwhiti
uru-mā-tonga	tonga	pitonga

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈuɾu]
• Hyphenation: u‧ru

uru

1. child

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[5], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 266

• IPA^(key): /uˈɾu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: u‧ru

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨru (“basket”), from Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲu (“basket”).^[1][2]

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní yru and Sateré-Mawé hɨt.

uru (possessable, IIc class pluriform, absolute uru, R1 ruru, R2 suru)

1. wrapper (something that wraps or covers other)

   Synonyms: mba'epokeka, ubandaba, pokesara

2. vessel; container (item in which objects may be stored and transported)

   Synonym: kamusi

3. (nautical) vessel (craft designed for transportation on water)
4. store; depot; warehouse (place where items may be kept)
5. basket made with palm leaves
6. bowl

   Synonym: kuîmbuka

7. birdcage
8. sheath (holster for a sword)

• Nheengatu: irú, urutú
• → Portuguese: uru

uru (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute uru, R1 repuru, R2 sepuru, R3 o epuru)

1. basket
2. bowl

   Synonym: kuîmbuka

• In the sense of "bowl", "basket" or "container", the class of this word differs based on its determiner. If the referent is the content, uru is IIc class; if it's the owner, uru is IId class.
  • For example, "manioc bowl" i.e., a bowl that contains manioc inside it, is aîpĩuru. If this was in the third-person, "its bowl", with its refering to the manioc, it would be suru.
  • However, when refering to the person that owns or is holding the bowl, as in "his bowl", it would be sepuru.
• The same distinction is made the sense of "vessel", though with a different word, ygara.

Unknown, possibly related to urubu.

Cognate with Guaraní uru.

uru (unpossessable)

1. New World quail (any bird in the family Odontophoridae)

• Nheengatu: urú
• → Portuguese: uru

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(ep)uru”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 108, column 1
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “uru”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 501, columns 1–2

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊrʊ]

uru

1. (anatomy) hair
2. crest (of a bird)

• iṉṯu (“body hair”)
• mangka (“head hair”)
• ngaṉkurpa (“beard; facial hair”)
• nyanyi (“pubic hair”)

From Proto-Polynesian *huru. Cognates include Tahitian uru and Maori uru.

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ɾu/
• Hyphenation: u‧ru

uru

1. (transitive) to enter

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 185
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[6], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 29

uru

1. Romanization of 𒌷 (uru)

Borrowed from Portuguese ouros.

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uru (u class, no plural)

1. (card games, uncountable) diamonds (suit of cards)
2. (card games) diamond (card of the "diamonds" suit)

Suits in Swahili · ng'anda (see also: karata, karata za kucheza) (layout · text)
makopa	uru	shupaza, majembe	pao, pau, karanga, mavi ya mbuzi

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ.

uru

1. breadfruit

From Proto-North Halmahera *uru (“mouth”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.ɾu]

uru

1. edge
2. a beak (of a bird)

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

uru

1. burrow, hole, form

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “нора”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[7], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

uru

1. Alternative spelling of wuurruu

uru

1. bone

Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad