uni

Clipping of university.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ni/

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uni (plural unis)

1. (colloquial, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) University.

   I'm going to uni after I leave school.

   Turn left when you reach the uni.

Canadian usage is limited to prepositional phrases like to uni or at uni and cannot be used as a countable noun (as in *the uni or *unis).

Borrowed from Japanese 雲丹.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/

uni (uncountable)

1. Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
   • 2013 July 16, Ken Belson, “In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins”, in The New York Times‎:

     The ikura popped in my mouth, the hotate was buttery soft and the uni was creamy and sweet without a seafood aftertaste, the kind of freshness I was hoping we would encounter when we left Tokyo.

• NUI, Niu

• uri (Tosk)
• uja (Gheg)

From Proto-Albanian *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”).[1] Cognate to English wish, Latin venia (“indulgence, kindness”).

uni f (definite singular unia)

1. hunger

• oreks

uni

1. water

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) ?
• native-languages.org

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

From French uni.

uni (not comparable)

1. plain, monocoloured

From Proto-Finnic *uni, from Proto-Finno-Permic *une, cognate to Finnish uni, Votic uni, Ludian uńi, and Erzya он (on, “dream”).

uni (genitive une, partitive und)

1. sleep

   Mul ei tule und. ― I can't sleep. (literally, “Sleep is not coming on me.”)

2. dream

   Ma nägin unes suurt põtra. ― I saw a big elk in my dream.

From Proto-Finnic *uni, from Proto-Finno-Permic *une. Cognates include Erzya он (on).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Syllabification^(key): u‧ni

uni

1. dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping; neutral term, not implied positive)

   Synonym: unennäkö

2. sleep (state of reduced consciousness)

   Synonym: unitila

• nähdä unta (“to have a dream”)
• olla unten mailla (“to be in the Land of Nod, in sleepland”)
• saada unen päästä kiinni (“can get to sleep”, literally “to be able to catch sleep”)

  En saanut unen päästä kiinni.

  I could not get sleep.

• syvässä unessa (“sound asleep”)
• unien selittäminen, unista ennustaminen (“oneiromancy”)

• painajainen

• uin

• IPA^(key): /y.ni/

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• Rhymes: -i

uni (feminine unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. past participle of unir

uni (feminine unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. united

• Organisation des Nations Unies
• unis comme les doigts de la main

Clipping of université. Compare standard French univ.

uni f (plural unis)

1. (Switzerland, informal) university

   Synonyms: univ, fac

• “uni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• nui

18th century, from French uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏni/, /ˈyːni/, (unusual) /yˈniː/

uni (indeclinable)

1. (of clothes, fabrics, chiefly predicative) unicolour, single-colour

   Synonym: einfarbig

uni

1. sound; noise; voice

From Dutch unie, from French union, from Latin ūniō f.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊni]
• Hyphenation: uni

uni

1. union,
   1. the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
   2. that which is united; something formed by a combination of parts or members.

      Uni Eropa ― European Union

      Uni Soviet ― Soviet Union

      Synonyms: perserikatan, persatuan, ikatan

• “uni” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognate with Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. dream
2. sleep

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 623

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: ù‧ni

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

uni

1. masculine plural of uno

uni m pl

1. plural of uno

Clipping of università.

uni f (invariable)

1. (Switzerland, informal) university

• uni in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• uni in Dizionario di Italiano online - La Repubblica
• uni in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• uni in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• uni in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• uni in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• uni in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• uni in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

uni

1. Rōmaji transcription of うに
2. Rōmaji transcription of ウニ

From Old Javanese uni.

uni

1. sound

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognates include Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʲi/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni (genitive unen, partitive unta or unda)

1. sleep
2. dream

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “сон”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN
• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “un'i”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

uni (invariable)

1. every

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/, [ˈuːniː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/, [ˈuːni]

ūnī

1. inflection of ūnus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. dative masculine/feminine/neuter singular

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognates include Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʲi/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni
• Rhymes: -unʲi

uni (genitive unen, partitive undu)

1. sleep
2. dream

• Tatjana Boiko (2019), “uni”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

Akin to Malay bunyi.

uni

1. sound

uni

1. water

• Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN
• Lińguas arawak da Amazônia setentrional (2001), page 570 (úuni)

uni

1. inflection of unir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

From un, or from Latin ūnīre, present active infinitive of ūniō.

• IPA^(key): /uˈni/

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a uni (third-person singular present unește, past participle unit) 4th conj.

1. to unite, merge, join

   Antonym: dezuni

• unire

• unic
• un, unu

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/ [ˈu.ni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Syllabification: u‧ni

uni f (plural unis)

1. Clipping of universidad (“university”); uni

• úuni, húuni

• IPA^(key): /uːni/

uni

1. water
2. waterway, river; body of water, lake; anything watery

• The precise meaning of the word is clarified by using classifiers.

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/

uni

1. (transitive) alternative form of wuni (“to watch”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Finnic *uni.

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

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

From Proto-Finnic *uni.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “uni”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞ni/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːni/, /ˈɪni/

uni

1. second-person singular present/future of uno

Cognate with Ternate au (“blood”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.n̪i/

uni

1. blood

• wuni

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics