wudu

• wudu'
• wudhu

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء‎ (wuḍūʾ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːduː/, /ˈwʊduː/

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
2. (Islam) the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

• abdest

• ghusl
• wazukhana

wudu

1. to fall

• widu, wiodu, wudo

Dissimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/

wudu m

1. wood
2. forest, woods
3. tree

• (wood): holt
• (forest): holt, weald
• (tree): trēow, bēam

• wuduweard (“forester”)

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

• triewen (“wooden”)

Borrowed from English voodoo, from Louisiana Creole French voudou, from Haitian Creole vodou, from a West African language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.du/

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• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of voodoo.

• wudu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wudu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.d̪u/

wudu

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of udu (“to blow”)

wudu

1. Alternative form of udu (“wind”)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics