apu

From Proto-Celebic *apuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔapu/

apu

1. fire

• David Mead, Edy Pasanda, An Initial Appreciation of the Dialect Situation in Saluan and Batui (Eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia) (2015)

apu

1. water

• Kaija Olkkonen, Soini Olkkonen, Somba-Siawari (Burum Mindik)—English dictionary (2007) (mentioned in the entry o)

From Pre-Chamorro *ʔapu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qabu, from Proto-Austronesian *qabu.

apu

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

From Proto-Finnic *apu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpu/, [ˈɑpu]
• Rhymes: -ɑpu
• Syllabification^(key): a‧pu

apu

1. help

   Apua! — Help!

   jonkin avulla — with the help of something, using something

2. assistance
3. helping hand
4. service
5. remedy
6. aid
7. support
8. relief
9. rescue
10. (as a modifier in compound words) auxiliary, additional, accessory

    apukone — auxiliary engine

• avu
• avittaa
• aulis

• -pua

From apa (“father”) +‎ -u (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒpu]
• Hyphenation: apu
• Rhymes: -pu

apu

1. dad

• apu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• apu in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

From Proto-Finnic *apu. Cognates include Finnish apu and Veps abu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpu/, [ˈɑpu]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpu/, [ˈɑb̥u]
• Rhymes: -ɑpu
• Hyphenation: a‧pu

apu

1. Synonym of api
   • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 109:

     Hää oli prostoist vanhemmist, varraa jäi vanhemmist i suureel vaivaal vanhemman veljän avul sai itsellee obrazovanjan.

     He had simple parents, lost [his] parents early on and with big difficulty with the help of his older brother got himself an education.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ampu, from Proto-Austronesian *apu. Compare Ilocano apo, Tagalog apo, Cebuano apu, Malay empu, and Cebuano umpu. Also possibly from Hokkien 阿婆 (a-pô, “paternal grandmother”).

• Hyphenation: a‧pu
• IPA^(key): /ˈapuʔ/, [ˈäː.poʔ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈapu/, [ˈäː.po]

ápû (plural ápu)

1. grandparent
   1. term of address for one's grandparents
2. term of reference for one's grandmother
3. title added to saint's names

   Apu Lusya

   Saint Lucy

• Hyphenation: a‧pu
• IPA^(key): /əˈpu/, [əˈpo]

apu

1. grandchild

• Michael L. Forman (2019) Kapampangan Dictionary‎, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 11

apú

1. grandchild
2. grandparent

From Latin aqua. Compare Romanian apă, Aromanian apã, Istro-Romanian åpe.

apu

1. water

• Theodor Capidan, Dicționar meglenoromân (Megleno-Romanian dictionary)

apu

1. mother or paternal aunt

apu

1. fire

• Donald F. and Sharon G. Barr and C. Salombe, Languages of Central Sulawesi: checklist, preliminary classification, language maps, wordlists, Ujung Pandang: Hasanuddin University (1979), page 98

• IPA^(key): [ˈɐpʊ]

apu

1. stone, rock
2. mountain, hill
3. stone tool

• puḻi

From Proto-Celebic *apuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔapuː/

apu

1. fire

• David Mead, Edy Pasanda, An Initial Appreciation of the Dialect Situation in Saluan and Batui (Eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia) (2015)

Borrowed from English apple.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.pu/
• Hyphenation: a‧pu

apu

1. apple
2. apple tree (Malus domestica)

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 17

From Proto-Celebic *apuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hapuy, from Proto-Austronesian *Sapuy.

apu

1. fire