kuru

See also: kūru

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Fore, literally meaning ‘shaking death’.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊɹuː/

Noun

kuru (uncountable)

1. A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 273:

     By the kate 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

Translations

central nervous system disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫魯病, 库鲁病 (kùlǔbìng)

• Finnish: kuru (fi)

• French: kuru (fr) m
• German: Kuru f
• Irish: kuru m

Anagrams

• Uruk

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Esperanto

Verb

kuru

1. imperative of kuri

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Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuʀuq (compare Chamorro hulu, Indonesian guruh, Malay guruh).

Noun

kuru (plural kurukuru)

1. thunder (sound caused by a lightning)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ku‧ru

Etymology 1

Noun

kuru

1. (geography) gorge, gulch (narrow v-shaped valley)
2. canyon

Declension

Declension of kuru (Kotus type 1/valo)

	singular	plural
nominative	kuru	kurut
genitive	kurun	kurujen
partitive	kurua	kuruja
accusative	kurun	kurut
inessive	kurussa	kuruissa
elative	kurusta	kuruista
illative	kuruun	kuruihin
adessive	kurulla	kuruilla
ablative	kurulta	kuruilta
allative	kurulle	kuruille
essive	kuruna	kuruina
translative	kuruksi	kuruiksi
instructive	—	kuruin
abessive	kurutta	kuruitta
comitative	—	kuruineen

Synonyms

• kanjoni

Etymology 2

Noun

kuru

1. (pathology) kuru.

Declension

Declension of kuru (Kotus type 1/valo)

	singular	plural
nominative	kuru	—
genitive	kurun	—
partitive	kurua	—
accusative	kurun	—
inessive	kurussa	—
elative	kurusta	—
illative	kuruun	—
adessive	kurulla	—
ablative	kurulta	—
allative	kurulle	—
essive	kuruna	—
translative	kuruksi	—
instructive	—	—
abessive	kurutta	—
comitative	—	—

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Japanese

Romanization

kuru

1. Rōmaji reading of くる

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Latvian

Verb

kuru

1. 1st person singular present indicative form of kurt

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuru/

Noun

kuru

1. accusative singular of kura
2. instrumental singular of kura

Maori

Noun

kuru

1. breadfruit

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Pitjantjatjara

Noun

kuru

1. wife

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Quechua

Noun

kuru

1. worm

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic kurıg.

Adjective

kuru (comparative daha kuru, superlative en kuru)

1. dry
2. a very slim person
3. depleted

Superlatives: Specifics belong to the object and are relative to itself, its own states: kuru, pek kuru, kup kuru. (Turkish has non indo-european workings as a lang. daha ~, en ~ are more of direct translation, begging: "in relation to what?").

Antonyms

• yaş
• nemli