gnu

See also Gnu, GNU, and gnú

English

Etymology

Taken from Nama, likely (onomatopoeia) of the grunt-type noise of the gnu.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /njuː/, X-SAMPA: /nju:/
• (US) IPA: /nuː/, X-SAMPA: /nu:/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: new, nu, knew

Noun

a few gnus

gnu (plural gnus)

1. A large antelope native to Africa having curved horns.

Synonyms

• wildebeest

Translations

large antelope

• Afrikaans: wildebees (af)
• Catalan: nyu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛羚 (cmn) (niúlíng), 角馬 (cmn), 角马 (cmn) (jiǎomǎ)

• Czech: pakůň hřivnatý (cs)
• Danish: gnu (da) c
• Dutch: gnoe (nl) m
• Esperanto: gnuo (eo)
• Finnish: gnuu (fi), gnu (fi)
• French: gnou (fr) m
• German: Gnu (de) n
• Greek: γκνου (el) (gknou) n
• Hungarian: gnú (hu)
• Italian: gnu (it) m
• Japanese: ヌー (ja) (nū)
• Korean: 누 (ko) (nu)

• Macedonian: гну (mk) (gnu) n
• Malay: gnu (ms)
• Navajo: jádí dághaaʼígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gnu (nb) m

  Nynorsk: gnu (nn) m

• Polish: gnu n/f
• Portuguese: gnu (pt) m
• Romanian: gnu (ro) m
• Russian: гну (ru) (gnu) m and f (indeclinable), антилопа-гну (ru) (antilópa-gnu) f
• Slovene: gnu (sl) m
• Spanish: ñu (es) m
• Swahili: nyumbu (sw), mbogo (sw)
• Swedish: gnu (sv) c
• Vietnamese: linh dương đầu bò

See also

• Gnu on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gun, nug

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From German Gnu, from Afrikaans ghnoe, from Bantu.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡnuː/, [ɡ̊nuːˀ]

Noun

gnu c (singular definite gnuen, plural indefinite gnuer)

1. gnu, wildebeest

Inflection

    Inflection of gnu

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	gnu	gnuen	gnuer	gnuerne
genitive	gnus	gnuens	gnuers	gnuernes

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɲu/
• Rhymes: -u

Noun

gnu m (invariable)

1. gnu

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Polish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

gnu n (indeclinable)

1. gnu

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Noun

gnu m (plural gnus)

1. gnu