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Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Verb
daju
- first-person singular present of daś
- third-person plural present of daś
Synonyms
- (first-person singular): dajom
Serbo-Croatian
Verb
daju (Cyrillic spelling дају)
- third-person plural present of davati
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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Pronunciation
Noun
daju
- a kind of thin bamboo used for making arrowheads
References
- Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “daju”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana, Museu do Índio/FUNAI
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 228, 388: “[da'hu] 'bamboo' […] da'hu 'bamboo' […] dahu - bamboo”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dahu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yoruba
Etymology 1
From dá (“to be sharp, to be vocal”) + ojú (“face”), literally “to be vocal in the face”.
Pronunciation
Verb
dájú
- to be heartless, to be mean
- Synonym: ṣekà
Derived terms
- adájú (“wicked person”)
- ọ̀dájú (“callous person”)
- ìdájú (“heartlessness, wickedness”)
Etymology 2
Same as Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
dájú
- to be sure of something, to be certain
- Synonym: dálójú
- ó dájú pé yóò jọba ― It is certain that he will be king
Derived terms
Adverb
dájú
- certainly, surely
- Synonym: dájú-dájú