ayu

From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːjuː/

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ayu (usually uncountable, plural ayus)

1. A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.

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• Yau

From Latin allium.

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic (plant)

ayu

1. Romanization of ᬳᬬᬸ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kahiw.

• IPA^(key): /a.ju/
• Hyphenation: a‧yu
• Rhymes: -ju, -u

ayu

1. tree
2. wood, timber

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• IPA^(key): /ā.jú/

ayú (plural ayú lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. leather

• IPA^(key): /ʔà.júː/
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àyū m (possessed form àyun)

1. manatee, (in particular) the African manatee

From Malay ayu, from Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, “beautiful, pretty”), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (“good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness”).

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• Hyphenation: ayu

ayu

1. beautiful, pretty
2. lovely

• “ayu” 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.

ayu

1. Rōmaji transcription of あゆ
2. Rōmaji transcription of アユ

ayu

1. Romanization of ꦲꦪꦸ

Inherited from Latin ālium

ayu m (plural ayos)

1. garlic

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• Ayu

From Javanese ꦲꦪꦸ (ayu, “beautiful, pretty”), from Old Javanese ayu, hayu (“good, virtuousness, welfare, happiness; beauty, loveliness”).

• IPA^(key): /aju/
• Rhymes: -aju, -ju, -u

ayu (Jawi spelling ايو)

1. dainty (Delicately small and pretty)

• “ayu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Probably from Sanskrit आयु (āyu, “living; lifetime”), thus doublet of ayuh and hayu. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ayu

1. harmony
2. Alternative spelling of hayu (“good, happiness; welfare; beauty”)
3. Alternative form of ayuh, āyuṣa

• "ayu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From Seediq yayu (“knife”).

ayu

1. a burn (landform)

• aáyù

Probably from Portuguese alho

• IPA^(key): /ā.jù/

ayù

1. garlic