daju

See also: dàjú

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdaju]

Verb

daju

1. first-person singular present of daś
2. third-person plural present of daś

Synonyms

• (first-person singular): dajom

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

daju (Cyrillic spelling дају)

1. third-person plural present of davati

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	daju
Brazilian standard	daju
New Tribes	daju

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dahu]

Noun

daju

1. a kind of thin bamboo used for making arrowheads

References

• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “daju”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 219, 228, 388: “[da'hu] 'bamboo' […] da'hu 'bamboo' […] dahu - bamboo”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dahu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Yoruba

Etymology 1

From dá (“to be sharp, to be vocal”) +‎ ojú (“face”), literally “to be vocal in the face”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/

Verb

dájú

1. to be heartless, to be mean

   Synonym: ṣekà

Derived terms

• adájú (“wicked person”)
• ọ̀dájú (“callous person”)
• ìdájú (“heartlessness, wickedness”)

Etymology 2

Same as Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/

Verb

dájú

1. to be sure of something, to be certain

   Synonym: dálójú

   ó dájú pé yóò jọba ― It is certain that he will be king

Derived terms

• ìdájú (“certainty”)

Adverb

dájú

1. certainly, surely

   Synonym: dájú-dájú

Related terms

• àkíìkà