hú

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "hu"

Dakota[edit]

Noun[edit]

hú

  1. bone

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

An onomatopoeia.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈhuː]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -huː

Interjection[edit]

hú

  1. wow! (the expression of surprise or mild scare)
    Synonyms: ejha, hűha, hű, tyűha, tyű, húha, azt a mindenit
    • 1845, Sándor Petőfi, János vitéz (John the Valiant), epic,[1] part 20, translated by John Ridland:[2]
      Hát még meg a varjúk!… hú, azok voltak ám!
      Not to mention the crows!… What a sight to be seen!
  2. whoo (the expression of delight)

References[edit]

  1. ^ hú in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading[edit]

  • hú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Onomatopoeic

Interjection[edit]

hú!

  1. hoo!
  2. boohoo!

Further reading[edit]

Lakota[edit]

Noun[edit]

hú

  1. leg

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Romanization[edit]

hú (Zhuyin ㄏㄨˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 狐
  2. Pinyin transcription of 弧
  3. Pinyin transcription of 胡
  4. Pinyin transcription of 湖
  5. Pinyin transcription of 糊
  6. Pinyin transcription of 蝴
  7. Pinyin transcription of 乎
  8. Pinyin transcription of 和
  9. Pinyin transcription of 喖
  10. Pinyin transcription of 嘝
  11. Pinyin transcription of 囫
  12. Pinyin transcription of 壺, 壶
  13. Pinyin transcription of 媩
  14. Pinyin transcription of 抇
  15. Pinyin transcription of 搰
  16. Pinyin transcription of 斛
  17. Pinyin transcription of 核
  18. Pinyin transcription of 楜
  19. Pinyin transcription of 槲
  20. Pinyin transcription of 汩
  21. Pinyin transcription of 瀫
  22. Pinyin transcription of 焀
  23. Pinyin transcription of 煳
  24. Pinyin transcription of 猢
  25. Pinyin transcription of 瑚
  26. Pinyin transcription of 瓠
  27. Pinyin transcription of 瓳
  28. Pinyin transcription of 箶
  29. Pinyin transcription of 絗
  30. Pinyin transcription of 縠
  31. Pinyin transcription of 葫
  32. Pinyin transcription of 蔛
  33. Pinyin transcription of 虖
  34. Pinyin transcription of 螜
  35. Pinyin transcription of 衚
  36. Pinyin transcription of 觳
  37. Pinyin transcription of 醐
  38. Pinyin transcription of 鈴
  39. Pinyin transcription of 鍸
  40. Pinyin transcription of 頶
  41. Pinyin transcription of 餬
  42. Pinyin transcription of 鬍
  43. Pinyin transcription of 魱
  44. Pinyin transcription of 鰗
  45. Pinyin transcription of 鴠
  46. Pinyin transcription of 鵠, 鹄
  47. Pinyin transcription of 鶘, 鶦, 鹕
  48. Pinyin transcription of 鶲
  49. Pinyin transcription of 鹗

Tlingit[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

hú

  1. third-person singular personal pronoun: he, she, it

See also[edit]

Tlingit personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person x̱át uháan
2nd person wa.é yeewháan
3rd person hú hás

Vietnamese[edit]

FWOTD – 17 December 2020

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hú • (觳)

  1. to howl
    • 1957, Đoàn Giỏi, chapter 3, in Đất rừng phương Nam, Kim Đồng:
      Không ai nghe tiếng tôi hú gọi cả.
      No-one heard me howling and shouting at all.
  2. (colloquial) to call for
    Có gì thì cứ hú tao nha bây.
    If anything turns up, just call me.

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