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anku

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Northern Kurdish

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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anku (Arabic spelling ئانکو)

  1. Alternative form of ango (that is to say)

References

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  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “anku”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 9

Quechua

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

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anku

  1. resistant, elastic, resilient

Noun

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anku

  1. cord, whip
  2. tube
  3. tendon, nerve
  4. blood vessel
  5. hardness
  6. squash, family Cucurbitaceae
  7. liana
  8. root

Declension

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV anku
Brazilian standard anku
New Tribes ancu
historical ad hoc aunko

Pronunciation

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Noun

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anku

  1. a fragrant watercress-like herb mixed with water, salt, and possibly other herbs to ritually bathe a newborn baby and its mother for the first three months after birth, as well as to bathe the dead

References

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  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 224:ancu
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 108, 137–139, 145:aunko