yuyu

See also: yǔyù

Balinese

Romanization

yuyu

1. Romanization of ᬬᬸᬬᬸ

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese yuyu, from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayuyu (“coconut crab”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈjuju/ [ˈju.ju]
• Rhymes: -uju
• Syllabification: yu‧yu

Noun

yuyu (plural yuyu-yuyu)

1. a crab, in general or specifically of the freshwater superfamily Gecarcinucoidea

References

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qayuyu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Further reading

• “yuyu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Romanization

yuyu

1. Romanization of ꦪꦸꦪꦸ

Malay

Etymology

From Javanese yuyu, from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayuyu (“coconut crab”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuju/ [ˈju.ju]
• Rhymes: -uju
• Hyphenation: yu‧yu

Noun

yuyu (plural yuyu-yuyu)

1. (Jakarta) a freshwater crab, in Gecarcinidae
2. (Jakarta, in general) a crab

Further reading

• “yuyu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Old Javanese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juju/

Noun

yuyu

1. crab

Alternative forms

• hayuyu

Synonyms

• karkaṭa

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦪꦸꦪꦸ (yuyu)
• → Balinese: ᬬᬸᬬᬸ (yuyu)

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝuʝu/ [ˈɟ͡ʝu.ʝu]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝuʝu/ [ˈɟ͡ʝu.ʝu]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃuʃu/ [ˈʃu.ʃu]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒuʒu/ [ˈʒu.ʒu]

• Rhymes: -uʝu
• Syllabification: yu‧yu

Noun

yuyu m (uncountable)

1. (informal, childish) the creeps, the heeby-jeebies

Further reading

• “yuyu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “yuyu”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

yuyu

1. light rain

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 96