wudu

See also: Wudu, wǔdú, Wǔdū, wúdù, and wudu'

English

Alternative forms

• wudu', wudhu, wuzu, woodoo

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ)bor.

English wudu

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːduː/, /ˈwʊduː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

wudu (uncountable)

2. (Islam) A ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
3. (Islam) The state of purity that is achieved by this washing.

Synonyms

• abdest
• ablution

Coordinate terms

• ghusl
• wazukhana

Translations

ritual washing after minor impurity

• Albanian: avdes (sq) m
• Arabic: وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ)
• Azerbaijani: dəstəmaz, abdəst (az), təharət
• Bashkir: тәһәрәт (təhərət)
• Bengali: ওজু (bn) (ōju), আবদস্ত (abdosto)
• Bulgarian: абде́ст m (abdést)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小淨 / 小净 (zh) (xiǎojìng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: woedoe
• Finnish: rukouspesu
• German: kleine Waschung f, Wudu (de) n
• Gujarati: વુઝૂ (vujhū), વુજૂ n (vujū), આબદસ્ત n (ābadast)
• Hindi: वुज़ू m (vuzū), वज़ू m (vazū), आबदस्त (hi) m (ābdast)
• Indonesian: wudu (id)
• Japanese: ウドゥー (udū), ウドゥ (udu)
• Javanese: wulu (jv), ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (jv) (wulu)
• Kazakh: дәрет (däret)
• Korean: 우두 (udu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: avdest (ku), abdest (ku), awdest (ku)

• Kyrgyz: даарат (ky) (daarat)
• Macedonian: абдест m (abdest)
• Malay: wuduk (ms)
• Malayalam: വുദു (vudu)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: وُضُو (wuzū), آبْدَسْت (ābdast)

  Iranian Persian: وُضو (vozu), آبْدَسْت (âbdast)

• Polish: abdest (pl) m
• Portuguese: abdeste m
• Russian: абде́ст (ru) m (abdɛ́st), вуду́ (ru) n (vudú), вуду́г m (vudúg), омове́ние (ru) n (omovénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀бдест (sh) m, а̀бдес m, а̀вдест (sh) m

  Latin: àbdest (sh) m, àbdes m, àvdest (sh) m

• Spanish: abdesto (es) m
• Sundanese: abdas (su)
• Swahili: udhu
• Tajik: вузӯ (vuzü), обдаст (obdast), дастнамоз (dastnamoz), таҳорат (tahorat)
• Tatar: тәһарәт (tt) (täharät)
• Turkish: abdest (tr), taharet (tr)
• Turkmen: täret
• Ukrainian: вуду́ n (vudú), абде́ст (uk) m (abdést), омові́ння n (omovínnja)
• Urdu: وُضُو (ur) m (vuzū), وَضُو (ur) m (vazū), آبْدَسْت m (ābdast)
• Uzbek: tahorat (uz)

Borôro

Verb

wudu

1. to fall

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay wudu, variant of the standard wuduk, from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwu.du]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

Noun

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) wudu

   Alternative form: wuduk (Malay)

Verb

wudu

1. (Islam) to perform wudu

   Synonym: berwudu

Alternative forms

• udu
• uduk
• wudhu
• wudlu
• wuduk

Derived terms

• berwudu

Further reading

• “wudu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Old English

Alternative forms

• widu, wiodu, wudo
• ᚹᚢᛞᚢ (wudu) — Franks Casket

Etymology

Assimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/
• Rhymes: -u.du

Noun

wudu m

1. wood
2. forest, woods
   • Laws of King Ine

     Ðonne mon bēam on wuda forbǣrne, ⁊ weorðe yppe on þone ðe hit dȳde, ġielde hē fulwīte: ġeselle LX sċill., forþamþe fȳr bið þēof.

     If a man burns up a tree in a forest, and it becomes known who did it, he shall pay a full fine: he shall pay sixty shillings, for fire is a thief.

   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil‎^[1]:

     Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā reðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.

     Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping worms, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.

3. tree

Declension

Strong u-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wudu	wuda
accusative	wudu	wuda
genitive	wuda	wuda
dative	wuda	wudum

Synonyms

• (wood): holt
• (forest): holt, weald
• (tree): trēow, bēam

Derived terms

• campwudu (“shield”)
• gamenwudu (“musical instrument, harp”)
• wuduweard (“forester”)

Descendants

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

See also

• triewen (“wooden”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English voodoo, from Louisiana Creole voudou, from Haitian Creole vodou, from a West African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.du/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

Noun

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. alternative spelling of voodoo

Further reading

• “wudu”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwuː.d̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

Noun

wudu (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓᜇᜓ) (Islam)

1. wudu

See also

• abdas
• ablusyon

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.d̪u/

Verb

wudu

1. (intransitive) alternative form of udu (“to blow”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of wudu (action verb)

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		towudu	mowudu	awudu
2nd person		nowudu	fowudu
3rd person	inanimate	iwudu	dowudu
	animate
imperative		nuwudu, wudu	fuwudu, wudu

Noun

wudu

1. alternative form of udu (“wind”)

References

• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[3], Pacific linguistics