کاجو

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akaju

Old Tupi akaîubor.

Portuguese cajubor.

Urdu کاجو

Borrowed from Portuguese caju, borrowed from Old Tupi akaîu, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akaju. First attested in c. 1708.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kɑː.d͡ʒuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: کا‧جُو

Noun

کاجُو • (kājū) m (Hindi spelling काजू)

1. cashew nut
2. cashew (Anacardium occidentale)

Declension

Declension of کاجو

	singular	plural
direct	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُو (kājū)
oblique	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُووں (kājūõ)
vocative	کاجُو (kājū)	کاجُوو (kājūo)

Descendants

• → Kashmiri: کاجوٗ (kājū)
• → Punjabi: kājū

  Gurmukhi script: ਕਾਜੂ

  Shahmukhi script: کاجُو

• → Pashto: کاجو (kāju)

Further reading

• “کاجو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “کاجو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “کاجو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “کاجو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.