adu

Clipping of English Aduge.

adu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aduge.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Aduge terms

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adu

1. imperative of adi

• aɖú (Benin)

From Proto-Gbe *aɖú.^[1] Cognates include Fon aɖǔ, Saxwe Gbe aɖú and Aja aɖu.

• IPA^(key): /a.ɖú/

adú (plural adú lẹ́) (Nigeria)

1. tooth

• IPA^(key): /ʔá.dú/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔá.dɪ́]

adu f (possessed form adun)

1. smallpox

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒdu]
• Hyphenation: adu
• Rhymes: -du

adu (plural aduk)

1. trump (the suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others)

• adu in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• adu in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• adoe (1901–1947)

From Malay adu, from Classical Malay ادو (adu), from Old Malay hadu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈadu/
• Hyphenation: adu

adu

1. basic form of mengadu

adu

1. competition

   Synonym: lomba

2. cockfight

• “adu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

adu

1. romanization of ꦲꦢꦸ

adu

1. first-person singular present indicative of adīt

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadu, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadu. Cognate with Puyuma sadru and Yami aro.

adú

1. many

• ادو

• IPA^(key): /ˈadu/
• Hyphenation: adu

From Classical Malay ادو (adu), from Old Malay hadu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”). See beradu.

adu

1. to compete, to contest.

   Mereka sedang adu tenaga.

   They are currently competing in strength.

2. to fight.

   Dia adu musuhnya seorang diri.

   He fought his enemy alone.

3. to complain

adu (plural adu-adu)

1. competition; usually as peraduan.

adu

1. (Palace Malay, poetic) to sleep. See beradu.

• “adu”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈdʊ/

adu m (Arabic spelling ئادو)

1. alternative form of edû (“enemy; rival”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “adu”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 2

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”).

• IPA^(key): /a.du/
• Rhymes: -du
• Homophones: aḍu, aḍū
• Hyphenation: a‧du

adu

1. to stand opposite
2. to face, to meet

• > Javanese: ꦲꦢꦸ (adu) (inherited)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈadu]

adu

1. second-person singular imperative of aduce

From earlier addew, inherited from Proto-Berber. Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⴷⴷⴰⵡ (ddaw).

adu (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵓ)

1. under, underneath

   Synonym: sadu

   D adu tefřewt ― It's under the wood.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.du/

adu

1. spleen

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

adu

1. a type of mushroom

• Drinfeld, Andrey. 2023. Aro-English / English-Aro Dictionary. Ms. 112pp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.d̪u/

adu

1. (transitive) to fell a tree

   Synonym: telo

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics