wudu

See also: ƿudu and wudu'

English

Alternative forms

• wudu'
• wudhu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

Noun

wudu (uncountable)

1. Ritual washing by Muslims before prayers.

Synonyms

• abdest

Translations

ritual washing before contact prayer

• Albanian: avdes (sq)
• Arabic: وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ)
• Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic: абдәст

  Roman: abdəst (az)

• Bashkir: тәһәрәт (təhərət)
• Bengali: ওযু (oyu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小淨／小净 (zh) (xiǎojìng), 小净 (zh) (xiǎojìng)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: woedoe
• Finnish: rukouspesu
• Gujarati: વુઝૂ (vujhū)
• Hindi: वुजू (hi) m (vujū), वजू (hi) m (vajū), आबदस्त (hi) m (ābdast)
• Indonesian: wudhu
• Javanese: wulu, ꦮꦸꦭꦸ (jv) (wulu)
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• Kurdish: , ,
• Macedonian: абдест m (abdest)
• Malay: wuduk
• Malayalam: വുദു (vudu)
• Persian: آبدست (fa) (âbdast), وضو (fa) (vozu)
• Polish: abdest (pl) m
• Portuguese: abdeste m
• Russian: абде́ст (ru) m (abdɛ́st), ву́ду́ (ru) m (vúdú), вуду́г m (vudúg), омове́ние (ru) n (omovénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀бдест m, а̀бдес m, а̀вдест m

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

• Spanish: abdesto (es) m
• Turkish: abdest (tr)
• Urdu: وضو (ur) (vuzu), آبدست (ābdast)

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Old English

Alternative forms

• widu, wiodu, wudo
• ƿudu — wynn spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”). Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr (Danish and Swedish ved). The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid (Welsh gwydd, Breton gwez).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/

Noun

wudu m

1. tree
2. wood, woodland
3. wood (the substance or material)

Declension

Declension of wudu (strong u-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wudu	wuda
accusative	wudu	wuda
genitive	wuda	wuda
dative	wuda	wudum

Declension of wudu (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wudu	wudas
accusative	wudu	wudas
genitive	wudes	wuda
dative	wude	wudum

Derived terms

• mæġenwudu
• sǣwudu
• sundwudu
• wuducoc
• wudumerċe
• wuduþistel

Related terms

• wude

Descendants

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