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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
Declension
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Declension of ку
case singular plural
indefinite куэ (kʷɛ) куэхэ (kʷɛxɛ)
nominative куэр (kʷɛr) куэхэр (kʷɛxɛr)
ergative куэм (kʷɛm) куэхэмэ (kʷɛxɛmɛ)
instrumental куэ(м)кӏэ (kʷɛ(m)kʼɛ) куэхэ(м)кӏэ (kʷɛxɛ(m)kʼɛ)
invertive куыу (kʷəwu) кухыу (kʷuxəwu)
Synonyms
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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