ru
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ru"
Contents
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ru (attributive ruwe, comparative ruwer, superlative ruuste)
Breton[edit]
Adjective[edit]
ru
Chuukese[edit]
Numeral[edit]
ru
Related terms[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French ru, riu, from Vulgar Latin rius, from Latin rīvus (“brook, small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move, set in motion”) + *-wós.
Noun[edit]
ru m (plural rus)
Related terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “ru” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Guaraní[edit]
Noun[edit]
ru
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
ru
Lojban[edit]
Cmavo[edit]
ru
- (pro-sumti) a distant (not so recent) sumti
Related terms[edit]
Malay[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Shortened form of eru, from Proto-Malayic *(h)Aru, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *(h)aru, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *(h)aru, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *(h)aru, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(q)aʀuhu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ru (Jawi spelling رو)
- Alternative form of eru
Synonyms[edit]
Mandarin[edit]
Romanization[edit]
ru
Usage notes[edit]
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Tarok[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate to Mapeo dɔ́ɔ́ ("fall, fall downwards"), Owere dò ("fall (as rain)").
Verb[edit]
ru
- to fall (downwards)
References[edit]
- R. Blench, The Benue-Congo languages
Vietnamese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ru
Categories:
- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans lemmas
- Afrikaans adjectives
- Breton lemmas
- Breton adjectives
- Chuukese lemmas
- Chuukese numerals
- chk:Two
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms with archaic senses
- Guaraní lemmas
- Guaraní nouns
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Lojban lemmas
- Lojban cmavo
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayic
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Chamic
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi
- Malay terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin pinyin
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Tarok lemmas
- Tarok verbs
- Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Vietnamese lemmas
- Vietnamese verbs
