Clipping of kamraati + -u
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑmu/, [ˈkɑ̝mu]
- Rhymes: -ɑmu
- Syllabification(key): ka‧mu
kamu (colloquial)
- a pal
Shortened from kamuflázs.[1]
- IPA(key): [ˈkɒmu]
- Hyphenation: ka‧mu
- Rhymes: -mu
kamu
- (slang) bullshit (a colloquial way of calling out a lie)
- Synonyms: álca, becsapás, hazugság
- ^ Pusztai, Ferenc (ed.). Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (’A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. →ISBN
From Malay kamu, from Classical Malay kamu, from Old Malay kamu, from Proto-Malayic *kamu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu.
kamu
- (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
- anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- coen (slang, East Java)
- ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- kamu (intimate)
- ko, kowe (informal, Java)
- kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
- lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)
kamu
- Rōmaji transcription of かむ
From Proto-Malayic *kamu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kamu, *kamiu.
First attested in the Telaga Batu inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (kamu).
kamu (Jawi spelling کامو)
- you (singular, familiar)
- Synonyms: anda, awak, dikau, engkau, kau, tuanku
- you (plural), you all, y'all
- Synonym: kalian
kamu
- you (singular)
Compare Classical Nahuatl camohtli (“sweet potato”).
kamu (plural kajkamu)
- manioc
- Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
- Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.
Proto-Austronesian *kamu.
kamu
- (inclusive, in the plural) you
From Afrikaans kam.
kámu class 9 (plural kámu class 10)
- comb
kamù
- wound; injury
From Proto-Philippine *kamu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kamu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kamu.
kamu
- you
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kamug, via Ottoman Turkish قموق (kamuk), قمو (kamu).
kamu (not comparable)
- (obsolete) whole, solely
kamu (definite accusative kamuyu, plural kamular)
- public
- “kamu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu