alu

See also: Alu, ALU, álu, alū, and -alú

English

Noun

alu (plural alus)

1. Alternative form of aloo

Anagrams

• -ual, Aul, Lau, Lua, UAL, ULA, Ula, aul

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Basque

Noun

alu

1. vagina, vulva

Derived terms

• alaba “daughter” (with kinship suffix ba)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly/

Noun

alu m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of aluminium.

Further reading

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

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay alu, from Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

Noun

alu (first-person possessive aluku, second-person possessive alumu, third-person possessive alunya)

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

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Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːlu]

Noun

alu

1. rice pestle

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “alu”, in Lamboya word list‎^[1], Leiden: LexiRumah

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Latvian

Noun

alu f

1. (deprecated template usage) accusative singular form of ala
2. (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular form of ala
3. (deprecated template usage) genitive plural form of ala

alu m

1. (deprecated template usage) vocative singular form of alus
2. (deprecated template usage) accusative singular form of alus
3. (deprecated template usage) instrumental singular form of alus

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Lindu

Noun

alu

1. direction
2. rhythm; cadence; meter (of a poem)

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Malay

Alternative forms

• الو

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, *laqəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alu/
• Rhymes: -alu, -lu, -u

Noun

alu (Jawi spelling الو)

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

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Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

Cognate with Proto-Slavic *olъ (“beer”), Lithuanian alùs (“beer”) and Latvian alus (“beer”).

Noun

alu

1. mead
   • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary

     Bier   Piwis

     [...]

     Mete   Alu

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 370

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Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɐlʊ]

Noun

alu

1. (anatomy) liver

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Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lu/

Verb

alu

1. (intransitive) to walk; swim slowly (said of a fish)

Derived terms

• eluwe

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Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit आलु (ālu).

Noun

alu

1. potato

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Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *alu

Verb

alu

1. To go

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Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *alu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lu/

Verb

alu

1. to go