karu
- two
- Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
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From Proto-Finnic *karhu.
karu (genitive karu, partitive karu)
- bear
From Proto-Finnic *karu (compare Karelian karu, Ludian karu).
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑru/, [ˈkɑ̝ru]
- Rhymes: -ɑru
- Syllabification(key): ka‧ru
karu (comparative karumpi, superlative karuin)
- unfertile, barren, bare (such as of land)
- barren, stark
- austere, harsh
karu
- Rōmaji transcription of かる
karu
- sack
- Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213
karu
- devil
karu m
- inflection of karš:
- accusative singular
- instrumental/genitive plural
karu
- first-person singular present indicative of kārt
karu
- accusative/instrumental singular of kara
karu
- eye
E ai ki ngā kōrero i whakapurua e Te Whānau-a-Apanui ngā karu o te papa angaanga o tana matua, o Te Pori-o-te-rangi, ki te harare pūwhero.- It is said that Te Whānau-a-Apanui plugged up the eye sockets of the skull of her father, Te Pori-o-te-rangi, with red sealing wax.
- spongy matter around the seeds of a gourd
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔru, from *kar- (“thing”) + *ʔu (“to eat”), literally “to eat things”.[1][2]
Cognate with Awetí kat-ʔu, Guaraní karu.
- IPA(key): /kaˈɾu/
- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: ka‧ru
karu (possessable)
- consumption (the act of eating)
- meal; repast (food served or eaten)
- overeating (the act of eating to excess)
karu (noun form karu)
- gluttonous (prone to overeating)
karu
- (intransitive) to have lunch; to eat
- Synonym: 'u
- (intransitive) to graze (to eat grass from a pasture)
- ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 404
- ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí[1], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204
From Portuguese caro and Spanish caro, ultimately from Latin carus
karu
- expensive, costly, pricey
Mi gusta e kas aki, pero e ta muchu karu.- I like this house, but it's too expensive.
karu
- seed
From Proto-Finnic *karhu.
- (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈkɑru/, [ˈkɑru]
- Rhymes: -ɑru
- Hyphenation: ka‧ru
karu
- bear
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn