kulu

kulu (tone kùlu)

1. hill, mountain, cliff

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

kulu

1. nose

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́dʊ́.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkú.ɽu/

-kúlu

1. big
2. great

kulua +‎ -u

• IPA^(key): /ˈkulu/, [ˈkulu]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧lu

kulu

1. (usually in the plural) expense, cost, expenditure

• (one expenditure): kustannus

• ajankulu
• kulukorvaus

kulu

1. worn

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuluˣ/, [ˈkulu(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧lu

kulu

1. present active indicative connegative of kulua
2. second-person singular present imperative of kulua
3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of kulua

• luku, ulku

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Oceanic *turuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuduq, from Proto-Austronesian *tuduq (“to drip; to leak”).

kulu

1. a drop
2. a general name for distilled liquor
3. (figurative) a disparaging term for a chief whose mother was said to be a commoner
4. (in extension) dysentery; gonorrhea

kulu

1. to drip; to leak
2. to flow (as tears)

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Oceanic *turus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *turus (“stake; free-standing post”).

kulu

1. post; stick (timber used in houses)

• “kulu” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

• IPA^(key): /kʉlʉ/

kulu m (definite singular kuluen, indefinite plural kuluar, definite plural kuluane)

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) The same meaning as lysterkorg.

From Proto-Polynesian *kulu.

kulu

1. breadfruit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ, compare Malay kulur.

kulu

1. breadfruit

• IPA^(key): /kʊˈlu/
• Hyphenation: ku‧lu

kulu

1. accusative singular of kul
2. third-person singular possessive of kul

From Proto-Oceanic *kuluʀ with irregular loss of *ʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ.

• IPA^(key): /kulu/

kulu

1. breadfruit

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *kuluR
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

kuluda +‎ -u. Cognates include Finnish kulu.

kulu

1. worn-out

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “изношенный”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika