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kuku
kuku
See also: kūkū
Finnish
Etymology 1
Verb
kuku
- Indicative present connegative form of kukkua.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of kukkua.
- Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of kukkua.
Etymology 2
Noun
kuku
- coua (any terrestrial bird of the genus Coua, in the cuckoo family)
Declension
| Inflection of kuku (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kuku | kukut | |
| genitive | kukun | kukujen | |
| partitive | kukua | kukuja | |
| illative | kukuun | kukuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kuku | kukut | |
| accusative | nom. | kuku | kukut |
| gen. | kukun | ||
| genitive | kukun | kukujen | |
| partitive | kukua | kukuja | |
| inessive | kukussa | kukuissa | |
| elative | kukusta | kukuista | |
| illative | kukuun | kukuihin | |
| adessive | kukulla | kukuilla | |
| ablative | kukulta | kukuilta | |
| allative | kukulle | kukuille | |
| essive | kukuna | kukuina | |
| translative | kukuksi | kukuiksi | |
| instructive | — | kukuin | |
| abessive | kukutta | kukuitta | |
| comitative | — | kukuineen | |
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay kuku, from Proto-Malayic *kuku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuku, from Proto-Austronesian *kuku.
Noun
kuku
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *kuku, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuku, from Proto-Austronesian *kuku.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuku/
- Rhymes: -uku, -ku, -u
Noun
kuku
Mapudungun
Noun
kuku (using Raguileo Alphabet)
See also
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Onomatopoetic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kûkuː/
- Hyphenation: ku‧ku
Interjection
kȕkū (Cyrillic spelling ку̏кӯ)
- woe
- The sound of a cuckoo singing.
- Shout in a hide and seek game.
References
- “kuku” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swahili
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeia.
Noun
kuku (n class, plural kuku)
See also
- jogoo (“rooster”)