ahu

Borrowed from Persian آهو (âhu).

ahu (plural ahus)

1. The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.^[1]

Borrowed from Rapa Nui ahu.

ahu (plural ahus or ahu)

1. On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.

• Hau, Hua

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ahu f (definite ahuja) (dialectal, Shkodër)

1. fine (payment)

   Synonym: gjobë

• “ahú-ja”, in Edukata e Ré. Revistë pedagogjike (in Albanian), number 2, Tirana: Gutenberg, 1930, page 70a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “ahú”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 3a

ahu (dialectal)

1. alternative form of ashtu

• Mann, S. E. (1948) “ahú”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 3a

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ahu

1. inflection of ah:
   1. definite nominative
   2. indefinite dative/ablative

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *aho (“a glade”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (“ash, ashes”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂e(H)s- (“to dry, burn”), from *h₂eh₁-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑhu/, [ˈɑɦu]

• Rhymes: -ɑhu
• Hyphenation: a‧hu

ahu (genitive ahu, partitive ahu)

1. a glade (grassy open or cleared space in a forest, especially one that is a result of slash-and-burn cultivation)

   noor perenaine tegi tule ahule ja lüpsis sääl esimest korda oma lehma ― the young hostess lit the fire in the glade and milked a cow for the first time

2. (dialectal) dry and high land with a thin layer of soil (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Declension of ahu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ahu	ahud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ahu
genitive			ahude
partitive		ahu	ahusid
illative		ahhu ahusse	ahudesse
inessive		ahus	ahudes
elative		ahust	ahudest
allative		ahule	ahudele
adessive		ahul	ahudel
ablative		ahult	ahudelt
translative		ahuks	ahudeks
terminative		ahuni	ahudeni
essive		ahuna	ahudena
abessive		ahuta	ahudeta
comitative		ahuga	ahudega

• “ahu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• ahu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• auh, hau, uha

• IPA^(key): /ʔaɦu/

ahu m (masc. plural ahubii, fem. ahuko, fem. plural ahubee)

1. skin (fem. = thick or piece of skin)

The form after a determiner ahu. (clarification of this definition is needed)

From Proto-Polynesian *qafu (“heap; heap up”). Cognate with Maori ahu (“sacred mound”).

ahu

1. heap, pile, mound
2. cairn, altar, shrine

• ahupuaʻa
• hoʻāhu

• ahu in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu.

ahu

1. dog (animal)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu.

ahu

1. dog (animal)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

ahu

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)

From Proto-Polynesian *afu (“offspring”).^[1]

ahu (passive ahua or ahungia or ahuria or ahutia)

1. to care for, to foster
2. to face or move in a certain direction

• ahuahu
• ahunga

From Proto-Polynesian *qafu (“heap up; mound”).^[2] Compare with Hawaiian ahu.

ahu

1. to heap up

ahu

1. (sacred) mound

• ahuahu
• ahunga

• “ahu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

ahu

1. second/third-person singular aorist active of hoti (“to be”)

• IPA^(key): /ɐːu/

ahu

1. mouth

• Homophone: aú

ahu m (plural ahus)

1. (rare) ahu (stone platform for moai)

From Proto-Polynesian *qafu (“heap”). Cognates include Hawaiian ahu (“altar”) and Maori ahu (“to heap up”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.hu/
• Hyphenation: a‧hu

ahu

1. stone platform under a statue, especially a mo'ai

• → English: ahu
• → Portuguese: ahu
• → Spanish: ahu

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 167

ahu m (plural ahus)

1. ahu, stone platform for mo'ai

Cognate with Tidore ahu, Sahu 'ahu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.hu/

ahu

1. (intransitive) to live, grow

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

ahu

1. I (personal pronoun)
2. me (direct object of a verb)
3. me (object of a preposition)
4. me (indirect object of a verb)
5. my (belonging to me)