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See also: Appendix:Variations of "yu"
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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Chinese 玉 (yù).

Noun

yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu)

  1. (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
    • 1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, page 34:
      A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.
  2. (archaic, uncountable) Jade, nephrite or jadeite.
    • 1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133:
      The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]
    • 1826, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies:
      Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]

Etymology 2

See you.

Pronoun

yu

  1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

Etymology 3

From Russian ю (ju).

Noun

yu (plural yus)

  1. The letter Ю, ю.
Translations

See also

Anagrams

Ama

Pronunciation

Noun

yu

  1. mountain, hill

Bargam

Noun

yu

  1. Alternative form of yuw

References

  • Loanwords in Takia, in Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

Belizean Creole

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu

  1. you (second-person singular pronoun)

Determiner

yu

  1. your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

References

Bislama

Etymology

From English you. Cognate with Tok Pisin yu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈju/
  • Hyphenation: yu

Pronoun

yu

  1. thou, you (singular)

See also

More information singular, dual ...
Bislama personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person exclusive mi mitufala mitrifala mifala
inclusive — yumitu, yumitufala yumitrifala yumi
2nd person yu yutufala yutrifala yufala
3rd person neutral hem, em tufala trifala ol1, olgeta
collective2 — tugeta trigeta —
Close
1 Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
2 The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.
Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.

References

  • Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronoun

yu

  1. Alternative spelling of you (“2nd person singular subject and object personal pronoun”)

Duna

Noun

yu

  1. water

References

  • Transnewguinea.org, citing Shaw (1973) (see Pacific Linguistics, edited by Karl James Franklin, 1973)

Indonesian

Noun

yu (plural yu-yu)

  1. older sister

Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

yu

  1. Alternative spelling of yuh

Japanese

Romanization

yu

  1. The hiragana syllable ゆ (yu) or the katakana syllable ユ (yu) in Hepburn romanization.

Jarai

Etymology

From Vietnamese dù.

Noun

yu (classifier pŏk)

  1. parachute

Kamula

Noun

yu

  1. water

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
  • Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)

Malalamai

Noun

yu

  1. water

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Malay

Alternative forms

  • hiu (obsolete in Malay, standard in Indonesian)

Etymology

From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈju/ [ˈju]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: yu

Noun

yu (Jawi spelling يو, plural yu-yu)

  1. A shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish).
    Synonym: jerung
    Ikan yu ialah seekor haiwan akuatik yang sangat kuat gigitannya.
    The shark is an aquatic animal whose bites are very strong.

Compounds

  • yu belak
  • yu belangkas
  • yu bengkong
  • yu berui
  • yu bodoh
  • yu cercak
  • yu cermangi
  • yu cicak
  • yu gergaji
  • yu giling
  • yu jaras
  • yu jerih
  • yu jerung
  • yu kabut
  • yu kecil
  • yu kemejan
  • yu kepak hitam
  • yu kia
  • yu manis
  • yu mata jauh
  • yu nipah
  • yu palang
  • yu parang
  • yu pasir
  • yu paus
  • yu pendek
  • yu pengajam
  • yu pokah
  • yu pulah
  • yu punai
  • yu putih
  • yu rimau
  • yu sambaran
  • yu sanggul
  • yu sanggul lintang
  • yu sirip hitam
  • yu tanduk
  • yu tembaga
  • yu tenggiri
  • yu todak
  • yu tokeh

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

yu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yū.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of yú.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of yǔ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of yù.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Noun

yu (Raguileo spelling)

  1. (anatomy) nose

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Pronoun

yu

  1. (chiefly Northern) Alternative form of yow

Miskito

Noun

yu

  1. sun
  2. day

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English you.

Pronoun

yu

  1. you

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

  • yiu (alternative spelling)

Etymology

Comes from Old Papiamentu "joego", from Spanish hijo. Compare and Kabuverdianu fidju "child" (ac Jacobs).

Noun

yu

  1. child (of parents)

Pijin

Pronoun

yu

  1. Alternative form of iu

Prasuni

Sranan Tongo

Swahili

Tagalog

Tataltepec Chatino

Tok Pisin

Torres Strait Creole

Unami

Waskia

Yoruba

Zacatepec Chatino

Zarma

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