daju
See also: dàjú
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdaju]
Verb
daju
- first-person singular present of daś
- third-person plural present of daś
Synonyms
- (first-person singular): dajom
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dahu]
Noun
daju
- (De'kwana dialect) bamboo
References
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “dahu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “dahu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yoruba
Etymology 1
From dá (“to be sharp, to be vocal”) + ojú (“face”), literally “to be vocal in the face”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/
Verb
dájú
- to be heartless, to be mean
- Synonym: ṣekà
Derived terms
- ìdájú (“heartlessness, wickedness”)
- adájú (“wicked person”)
Etymology 2
Same as Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/
Verb
dájú
- to be sure of something, to be certain
- Synonym: dálójú
- ó dájú pé yóò jọba ― It is certain that he will be king
Derived terms
- ìdájú (“certainty”)
Adverb
dájú
- certainly, surely
- Synonym: dájú-dájú
Related terms
- àkíìkà