yuyu

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See also: yǔyù

Balinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu (“crab”). Compare to Javanese ꦪꦸꦪꦸ (yuyu).

Pronunciation

Noun

yuyu (Balinese script ᬬᬸᬬᬸ)

  1. crab

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “yuyu” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary , Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province .

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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/
  • 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

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Pronunciation

Noun

yuyu

  1. crab

Alternative forms

Synonyms

Descendants

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -uʝu
  • Syllabification: yu‧yu

Noun

yuyu m (uncountable)

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

Further reading

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)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 96
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