nu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nu"

English

Ancient Greek Alphabet

← mu		→ xi
Ν ν Ancient Greek: νῦ
Wikipedia article on nu

Etymology 1

Name for the letter of the Greek alphabet (deprecated template usage) Ν (N) and (deprecated template usage) ν (n).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /njuː/
• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nuː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -uː

Noun

nu (uncountable)

1. Name for the letter of the Greek alphabet (deprecated template usage) Ν (N) and (deprecated template usage) ν (n).
2. A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.

Translations

name for the letter of the Greek alphabet: Ν and ν

• Arabic: نُو m (nū)
• Asturian: ni (ast) f
• Catalan: ni (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紐／纽 (zh) (niǔ), 纽 (zh) (niǔ)

• Czech: ný n
• Danish: ny (da) n
• Dutch: nu (nl) m or f
• French: nu (fr) m
• Galician: ni (gl) m
• German: Ny (de) n
• Greek: νι (el) n (ni)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: nű
• Japanese: ニュー (nyū), ニ (ja) (ni)
• Korean: 뉴 (ko) (nyu)
• Malay: nu
• Persian: نو (fa) (nu)
• Polish: ni (pl) n
• Portuguese: ni (pt) m
• Russian: ню (ru) n (nju)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ни

  Latin: ni (sh)

• Spanish: ni (es) f

Etymology 2

Template:borrowing.

Pronunciation

• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Interjection

nu

1. (deprecated template usage) (Jewish) An exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt, etc.

Translations

exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt etc.

• Yiddish: נו (nu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 3

Corruption of (deprecated template usage) new.

Adjective

nu (comparative more nu, superlative most nu)

1. (deprecated template usage) (slang spelling) new

Derived terms

• nu jazz
• nu metal

Anagrams

• un, 'un, UN

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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *nu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *nu 'now'. Related to ni. Compare Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) νῦν (nûn), Old High German (deprecated template usage) nu.

Adverb

nu

1. when

Related terms

• ni

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Ama

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Noun

nu

1. house

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Aromanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nōn. Compare Daco-Romanian (deprecated template usage) nu.

Adverb

nu

1. no
2. not

Interjection

nu

1. no

Antonyms

• ie

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Catalan

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu (feminine nua, masculine plural nus, feminine plural nues)

1. nude, naked
2. (deprecated template usage) (of things, such as trees, mountains, houses, etc.) barren, bare

Derived terms

• nuesa
• nudista

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Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) novem.

Numeral

nu

1. nine

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nōs.

Pronoun

nu

1. (deprecated template usage) (second-person plural pronoun) we

Related terms

• noi

See also

• ju
• te
• jal, jala
• vu
• jali, jale

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Danish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) nú, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *nu (“now”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/, [nu]

Noun

nu n (singular definite nuet, not used in plural form)

1. now (present time), present (current time)
2. moment
3. instant

Adverb

nu

1. now

Conjunction

nu

1. now

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Dutch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch (deprecated template usage) nu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch nū, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *nu.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ny/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  audio

  (file)

Adverb

nu

1. now, at the present moment

2. now, this time (indicating a certain amount of impatience)

Synonyms

• nou
• thans
• heden

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Elfdalian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  (deprecated template usage) nú, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *nu. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish (deprecated template usage) nu.

Adverb

nu

1. now, at this time

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Interjection

nu

1. well (as in “Well, I think...”)

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Ewe

Noun

nu

1. mouth

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French

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ny/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  audio

  (file)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) nu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu (feminine nue, masculine plural nus, feminine plural nues)

1. (person): naked, nude
2. (body, tree): bare

Noun

nu m (plural nu)

1. nu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

• un

External links

• “nu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese (deprecated template usage) nuu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós.

Adjective

nu (feminine núa, masculine plural nus, feminine plural núas)

1. naked, nude
2. bare, barren

Related terms

• nudez

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German

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Low German nu ("now"). This form and similar forms also exist in many High German dialects.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nuː/

Adverb

nu

1. (deprecated template usage) (colloquial) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of nun

Derived terms

• im Nu

Interjection

1. (deprecated template usage) (colloquial) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of nun

Etymology 2

From a Slavic dialect, most probably Sorbian. Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech ano (“yes”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Polish no (“yeah”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nɵ/

Interjection

1. (deprecated template usage) (colloquial, Upper Saxonian) yes, yeah, signifies agreement or understanding

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Gothic

Romanization

nu

1. (deprecated template usage) Romanization of 𐌽𐌿

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Italian

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -u

Noun

nu m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the letter N

Anagrams

• un, un'

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Japanese

Romanization

nu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぬ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ヌ

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Latvian

Particle

nu

1. well

2. now

Interjection

nu

1. well

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Lojban

Cmavo

1. Event abstractor, similar in meaning to an infinitive or gerund.
   • 2005, Ben Goertzel, Potential Computational Linguistics Resources for Lojban

     mi djica le nu mi klama le zarci

     I want to go to the store.

Usage notes

• A sumti phrase begun with nu ends with the elidable terminator (deprecated template usage) kei unless no ambiguity results (in which case the terminator is elided).

Derived terms

• lenu

See also

• du'u
• kei
• su'u
• za'i

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Mandarin

Romanization

nu

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of nú.
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of nǔ.
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of nù.
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of nǚ.
5. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of nǜ.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Mauritian Creole

Pronoun

nu

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative spelling of nou

See also

Mauritian Creole personal pronouns

			singular	plural
1st person			mo mwa (objective)	nou
2nd person			to (informal), ou (formal) twa (objective)	zot
3rd person			li	zot, bann-la

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Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• 'nu
• n'

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) ūnus.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Article

nu m sg

1. a, an

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French nu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu m

1. (Jersey) bare

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nū

1. now

   wat unbīdan we nū?

   what are we waiting for now?

Descendants

• Dutch: nu, nou

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Old English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nū

1. now

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Old French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nu m (feminine nue)

1. naked

Adverb

nu m (feminine nue)

1. naked

Descendants

• French: nu

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *nu.

Adverb

nū

1. now

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Pará Arára

Alternative forms

• nugu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

Noun

nu

1. tumour; abscess

References

• 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

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Polish

Interjection

nu

1. quick!, forward!

See also

• nuże

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• nú (obsolete, now a common misspelling)
• nù (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese (deprecated template usage) nuu, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nūdus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈnu/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -u

Adjective

1. naked, nude

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Romanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Adverb

nu

1. no
2. not

Antonyms

• da

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Saterland Frisian

Interjection

nu

1. well

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *nǫ.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nu/

Conjunction

1. (deprecated template usage) (Croatia) but
2. (deprecated template usage) (Croatia) however

Synonyms

• ali, no, nut

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Sicilian

Article

nu m sg

1. (deprecated template usage) (indefinite) a, an

See also

Sicilian articles
	Masculine	Feminine
indefinite singular	un, nu	na
definite singular	lu, û	la, â
definite plural	li, î	li, î

Usage notes

Nu is used only before words beginning with the letter z or s and a consonant, like the Italian uno

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Swedish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) nú, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *nu.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /nʉː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter)

  audio

  (file)

Adverb

nu (not comparable)

1. now, at this moment

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English (deprecated template usage) new.

Adjective

nu

1. new
2. fresh

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Upper Saxon

Adverb

nu

1. yes

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Volapük

Adverb

nu

1. now

Derived terms

• nuik

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Wauja

Pronoun

nu

1. me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

   Pinyanka nu! Katsa umawiu? Nama!

   Tell me! What did [he] say? Come on!

   Puputatain nu kuapi.

   Give me a little [bit of] cotton thread.

Related terms

• natu (I,me, my, mine)

References

• E. Ireland field notes. Needs to be checked by a native speaker.