karu

• IPA^(key): [karu]

karu

1. two

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Proto-Finnic *karhu.

karu (genitive karu, partitive karu)

1. bear

Declension of karu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		karu	karud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	karu
genitive			karude
partitive		karu	karusid
illative		karru karusse	karudesse
inessive		karus	karudes
elative		karust	karudest
allative		karule	karudele
adessive		karul	karudel
ablative		karult	karudelt
translative		karuks	karudeks
terminative		karuni	karudeni
essive		karuna	karudena
abessive		karuta	karudeta
comitative		karuga	karudega

• jääkaru

• → Livonian: karū

Possibly borrowed from a Germanic language (compare Middle Low German karich, karch),^[1] and perhaps derived with +‎ -u. Cognate with Karelian karu, Ludian karu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑru/, [ˈkɑ̝ru]
• Rhymes: -ɑru
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧ru
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧ru

karu (comparative karumpi, superlative karuin)

1. unfertile, barren, bare (such as of land)
2. barren, stark
3. austere, harsh

• “karu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• kura

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *karʔu (“to eat (things)”). By surface analysis, *kat (“thing”) + *ʔu (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈru/ [kaˈɾu]

karu

1. food
2. meal
3. lunch

karu

1. to eat
2. to have lunch

karu

1. child

• Gurindji language words from the 50 words project from the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

karu

1. Rōmaji transcription of かる

• karung

karu

1. sack

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

karu

1. devil

karu m

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

karu

1. first-person singular present indicative of kārt

karù m

1. instrumental singular of kãras

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ru/
• Rhymes: -aru
• Syllabification: ka‧ru

karu

1. accusative/instrumental singular of kara

From Proto-Polynesian *kalu₂ (compare with Samoan ‘alu).^[1]

Sense of eye likely from 'spongy pulp of the calabash'^[2] > 'spongy membrane surrounding the eye' (sclera) > 'pupil of the eye' > 'eye'.

karu

1. spongy matter (pulp around the seeds of a bottle gourd,^[2] brains, clotted blood etc)

   Synonyms: pukahu, kōpuka, roro

2. pupil of the eye
3. eye

   Synonyms: mata, whatu

   E ai ki ngā kōrero i whakapurua e Te Whānau-a-Apanui ngā karu o te papa angaanga o tana matua, o Te Pori-o-te-rangi, ki te harare pūwhero.

   It is said that Te Whānau-a-Apanui plugged up the eye sockets of the skull of her father, Te Pori-o-te-rangi, with red sealing wax.

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “karu”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 120
• “karu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

karu

1. dative singular of kara

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔru, from *kar- (“thing”) +‎ *ʔu (“to eat”), literally “to eat things”.^[1][2]

Cognate with Awetí kat-ʔu, Guaraní karu.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ka‧ru

karu (possessable)

1. consumption (the act of eating)
2. meal; repast (food served or eaten)
3. overeating (the act of eating to excess)

karu (noun form karu)

1. gluttonous (prone to overeating)

karu (first-person singular active indicative akaru, first-person singular negative active indicative n'akaruî, noun karu) (intransitive)

1. to eat

   Near-synonym: 'u (transitive)

2. to graze (to eat grass from a pasture)

• Nheengatu: karú

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “karu”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 222, column 2

• caro (Aruba)

From Portuguese caro and Spanish caro, ultimately from Latin carus

karu

1. expensive, costly, pricey

   Mi gusta e kas aki, pero e ta muchu karu.

   I like this house, but it's too expensive.

karu

1. seed

• -kar- (combining form)

Cognate with Mundari sara' ("monkey"), Ho sara ("monkey"), Korku saraq ("monkey").

• IPA^(key): /karuː/
• IPA^(key): /karʊː/

karu

1. monkey

• arsi

• karua
• karubao
• karukarede

• Ramamurti, R. S. (1933). Sora–English Dictionary. Delhi: Mittal Publication.

From Proto-Finnic *karhu.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑru/, [ˈkɑru]
• Rhymes: -ɑru
• Hyphenation: ka‧ru

karu

1. bear

Declension of karu (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	karu	karud
genitive	karu	karujõ, karui
partitive	karrua	karuitõ, karui
illative	karrusõ, karru	karuisõ
inessive	karuz	karuiz
elative	karussõ	karuissõ
allative	karulõ	karuilõ
adessive	karullõ	karuillõ
ablative	karultõ	karuiltõ
translative	karussi	karuissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn