rou

rou

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Runga.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Runga terms

• IPA^(key): /rœu/

From Dutch rauw.

rou (attributive rou, comparative rouer, superlative rouste)

1. raw

From Dutch rouwen.

rou (present rou, present participle rouende, past participle gerou)

1. to mourn, grieve

Back-formation from rouada, variant form of rosada.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrow]

rou m (plural rous)

1. (Mallorca) dew

   Synonym: rosada

• “rou”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rou”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “rou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French roue.

rou

1. wheel

rou

1. Rōmaji transcription of ろう
2. Rōmaji transcription of ロウ

rou

1. nonstandard spelling of róu
2. nonstandard spelling of rǒu
3. nonstandard spelling of ròu

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

rou

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

rou

1. alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

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• IPA^(key): /row/

rou

1. reflected light of the moon

• berorou (“yellow; color of the twilight”)
• merorou

• rou in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• rou in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• rou in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 294.

From Proto-North Halmahera *ḋohu (“foot, leg”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.u/

rou

1. foot
2. leg

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

Cognate with Balantak ro'up.

• IPA^(key): /rou/

rou

1. face

• Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris