roo

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See also: 'roo and ro'o

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English roo, ro, from Old English rō, rōw (“quietness, quiet, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *rōō (“quiet, rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ere(w)-, *rē(w)- (“quiet”). Cognate with Scots ro, ruve (“peace, repose”), German Ruhe (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ro (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Icelandic ró (“tranquility, quietness”).

Noun

roo (uncountable)

  1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) Peace; quietness.
  2. (UK dialectal) Rest; stillness.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of kangaroo.

Alternative forms

Noun

roo (plural roos)

  1. (Australia, slang) Clipping of kangaroo.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

roo

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of roer

Gooniyandi

Noun

roo

  1. excrement, faeces, shit

Hadza

Pronunciation

Noun

roo m (masc. plural roobii, fem. rooko, fem. plural roobee) (Note: the form after a determiner is roo)

  1. a horn, barb (mpl vowel may rise to ruubii. fem. = a short/stout horn)

Manx

Pronoun

roo

  1. third-person plural of rish
    to them

Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

roo

  1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Etymology 2

Noun

roo

  1. Alternative form of ro (“serenity”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -ou
  • Hyphenation: ro‧o

Verb

roo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of roer

Spanish

Verb

roo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of roer
    Synonyms: roigo, royo

Tetum

Etymology

From *doo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun, compare Malay daun.

Noun

roo

  1. leaf
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