ку

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See also: кю and қу

Adyghe

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Etymology 1

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Letter

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ку (kʷu) (lower case, upper case Ку)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Adyghe alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Etymology 2

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Compare Kabardian гу (gʷu).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kʷə]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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ку (kʷu)

  1. carriage
  2. cart
  3. wagon
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Chuvash

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Etymology

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From Volga Bulgar ك.

Determiner

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ку (ku)

  1. this

Further reading

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  • ку”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.

Kabardian

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Letter

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ку (kʷu) (lower case, upper case Ку)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Kabardian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.

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Komi-Permyak

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Etymology

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From Proto-Permic *ku.

Noun

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ку (ku)

  1. leather
  2. hide

Macedonian

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Noun

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ку (kun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

Mator

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samoyedic *koəj, from Proto-Uralic *kojwa.

Noun

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ку (transliteration needed)

  1. birch

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Omok

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Etymology

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Perhaps related to Proto-Uralic *kume.

Noun

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ку (ku)

  1. snow

References

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  • Ferdinand von Wrangel (1841) Прибавленія къ путешествію по сѣвернымъ берегамъ Сибири и Ледовитому Морю [Supplements to the adventure along the northern shores of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean] (in Russian), volume 2, Saint Petersburg, page 120

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ку (kun inan (indeclinable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

Udmurt

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈku]
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: ку

Etymology 1

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Ку.

From Proto-Permic *ku, from Proto-Uralic *kopa. Cognates include Eastern Mari куво (kuvo, husk).

Permic cognates include Komi-Zyrian ку (ku) and Komi-Yazva ку (ku).

Noun

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ку (ku)

  1. skin, leather, fur, hide
Declension
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Permic *kod, from Proto-Uralic *ku-. Cognates include Komi-Zyrian кор (kor).

Adverb

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ку (ku)

  1. when

Conjunction

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ку (ku)

  1. when
Derived terms
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References

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  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “ку”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 334
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 126

Yagnobi

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Pronoun

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ку (ku)

  1. where