wudu

• wudu', wudhu, wuzu, woodoo

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːduː/, /ˈwʊduː/

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
2. (Islam) the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

• abdest
• ablution

• ghusl
• wazukhana

wudu

1. to fall

Inherited from Malay wudu, variant of the standard wuduk, from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwu.du]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) wudu

   Alternative form: wuduk (Malay)

wudu

1. (Islam) to perform wudu

   Synonym: berwudu

• “wudu” 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.

• widu, wiodu, wudo
• ᚹᚢᛞᚢ (wudu) — Franks Casket

Dissimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/

wudu m

1. wood
2. forest, woods
   • Laws of King Ine

     Ðonne mon bēam on wuda forbǣrne, ⁊ weorðe yppe on þone ðe hit dȳde, ġielde hē fulwīte: ġeselle LX sċill., forþamþe fȳr bið þēof.

     If a man burns up a tree in a forest, and it becomes known who did it, he shall pay a full fine: he shall pay sixty shillings, for fire is a thief.

   • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham (tr.), Hexameron of St. Basil:

     Hwæt ðā God ġeworhte ðurh his wunderlīċan mihte eall nȳtencynn on heora cynrynum, and ðā wildan dēor ðe on wudum eardiað, and eall ðæt fīðerfōte byð of ðǣre foresǣdan eorðan, and eall wyrmcynn ðā ðe crēopende bēoð, and ðā reðan lēon, ðe hēr on lande ne bēoð, and ðā swiftan tigres, and ðā syllican pardes, and ðā eġeslīċan beran, and ðā ormǣtan ylpas.

     Then, through his wonderful might, God created all the kinds of animals according to their kinds, and the wild animals that dwell in the woods, and all the four-footed creatures of the aforementioned earth, and all the kinds of creeping worms, and the savage lions, which do not live here, and the swift tigers, and the marvelous leopards, and the fearful bears, and the huge elephants.

3. tree

Strong u-stem:

• (wood): holt
• (forest): holt, weald
• (tree): trēow, bēam

• campwudu (“shield”)
• wuduweard (“forester”)

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

• triewen (“wooden”)

Borrowed from English voodoo, from Louisiana Creole voudou, from Haitian Creole vodou, from a West African language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.du/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. alternative spelling of voodoo

• wudu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwuː.d̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓᜇᜓ) (Islam)

1. wudu

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.d̪u/

wudu

1. (intransitive) alternative form of udu (“to blow”)

wudu

1. alternative form of udu (“wind”)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[1], Pacific linguistics