dou
See also: dóu, dòu, dōu, dǒu, do'u, d'où, and dō
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch dauw.
Pronunciation
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Noun
dou (uncountable)
- dew
Dutch
Alternative forms
- douw (Hollandic, obsolete) (Stadsfries)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑu̯/
- Hyphenation: dou
- Rhymes: -ɑu̯
Pronoun
dou
- (Holland, dialectal, colloquial) Obsolete form of du.
Usage notes
- Dou was considered to belong to a particularly low-status register, associated with the speech of lower-class speakers from certain Hollandic dialects. Early modern texts from Holland for a general audience typically used du if they used the archaic second person singular at all, but dou is well-attested in farces. In Stadsfries and Bildts (the Dutch dialects traditionally spoken in Frisia), dou is still widely used.
Galician
Verb
dou
- first-person singular present indicative of dar
Krisa
Noun
dou
- hand, arm
Limburgish
Alternative forms
- doe (widespread variant)
- do (unstressed form)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dɔu̯]
- Hyphenation: dou
- Rhymes: -ɔu̯
Pronoun
dou
- (Eupen, Krefeld) second-person singular, informal, nominative: you, thou
Mandarin
Romanization
dou
- Nonstandard spelling of dōu.
- Nonstandard spelling of dǒu.
- Nonstandard spelling of dòu.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Norman
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
dou m (plural dous)
- (Jersey, geography) brook
Old French
Contraction
dou
- Alternative form of del
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin dō.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdo(w)/ [ˈdo(ʊ̯)]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdo(w)/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈdo/
- Rhymes: -ow, -o
- Hyphenation: dou
Verb
dou
- first-person singular present indicative of dar
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tou˨˦/
- Tone numbers: dou1
- Hyphenation: dou
Pronoun
dou (Sawndip forms 杜 or 都 or 头, 1957–1982 spelling dou)
- (exclusive) we; us
See also
| Standard Zhuang personal pronouns | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Person | Singular | Plural | |
| 1st | exclusive | gou | dou |
| inclusive | raeuz | ||
| 2nd | mwngz | sou | |
| 3rd | de | gyoengqde | |
Etymology 2
From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (“door”). Compare Thai ประตู (bprà-dtuu).
Noun
dou (Sawndip forms 𫔯 or 都 or 偷, 1957–1982 spelling dou)
- door
- haidou ― to open the door
Derived terms
- doulaeng
- dounaj