alu

alu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for 'Are'are.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of 'Are'are terms

alu (plural alus)

1. Alternative form of aloo.

• Lua, UAL, aul, Lau, -ual, Ula, Aul, lau, ULA, LUA

From Malay alur.

alu

1. stream (small river)

alu

1. vagina, vulva

• alaba (“daughter”) (with kinship suffix -ba)

alu

1. partitive plural of ala

alu

1. genitive singular of alg

• IPA^(key): /a.ly/

• Audio:

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alu m (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of aluminium

• “alu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu.

alu

1. a pestle

• Scott, N. C. (1956) A Dictionary of Sea Dayak‎^[1], School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”). Compare Tausug hallu.

alu

1. pestle

From Malay alu, from Classical Malay ألو (alu), from Old Malay [script needed] (halu), from Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈalu/ [ˈa.lu]
• Rhymes: -alu
• Syllabification: a‧lu

alu (plural alu-alu)

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

   Synonym: antan

• “alu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese writing system
Carakan	ꦲꦭꦸ
Pegon
Roman	alu

From Old Javanese halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”).

alu

1. pestle

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011) “alu”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

Borrowed from Burmese အလှူ (a.hlu).

alu

1. offering, donation

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[2], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

• IPA^(key): [ˈaːlu]

alu

1. rice pestle

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “alu”, in Lamboya word list‎^[3], Leiden: LexiRumah

alu f

1. inflection of ala:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

alu m

1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular of alus

alu

1. direction
2. rhythm; cadence; meter (of a poem)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahelu.

alu (Lontara spelling ᨕᨒᨘ)

1. pestle

From Proto-Malayic *halu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalu/ [ˈa.lu]
• Rhymes: -alu, -lu, -u

alu (Jawi spelling الو, plural alu-alu)

1. pestle (instrument used with a mortar to grind things)

   Synonyms: antan, lesung

• Indonesian: alu

• “alu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

alu

1. to walk

• aluhdo
• aluhjili
• aluhla

Cognate with Apatani alo.

alu

1. day

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.lu/

alu n

1. alternative form of ealu (“ale”)

Consonant stem, irregular:

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *álu.

alu

1. mead
   • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary

     Bier   Piwis

     [...]

     Mete   Alu

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370

• IPA^(key): [ˈɐlʊ]

alu

1. (anatomy) liver

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.lu/

alu

1. (intransitive) to walk; swim slowly (said of a fish)

• eluwe

alu

1. romanization of ᚨᛚᚢ

• (Arabic) اَلُ
• (Bengali) আলু
• (Myanmar) အာလူး
• (Hanifi) 𐴀𐴝𐴓𐴟 (alu)

From Sanskrit आलु (ālu).

• IPA^(key): [ɑ.ˈlu]

alu

1. tuber, starchy root vegetable

• alu gula (“potato”)

alu

1. can; may

From Proto-Polynesian *alu.

alu

1. to go

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qahəlu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaSəlu (“pestle”).

alu

1. pestle

From Proto-Polynesian *alu.

• IPA^(key): /a.lu/

alu

1. to go