aru

Clipping of English Arua.

aru

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Arua.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Arua terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ru/

aru

1. sharp

• SIL International (2020), “Abau Dictionary”, in Webonary.org‎^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/ [ˈʔʌɾʊ]
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

áru m

1. (geography, astronomy) crater

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

aru

1. language

• Official translation of the Constitución Política del Estado, Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional, 2016

aru

1. two

• The Rosetta Project, Blagar Swadesh List
• Stokhof (1975)

Borrowed from Spanish arroz.

aru

1. rice

• Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974), Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)‎^[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 77

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /a˥.ɾu˩/, [a˥.ɾu˩]

aru

1. to come

• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 11

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑru/, [ˈɑru]
• Rhymes: -ɑru
• Hyphenation: aru

From Proto-Finnic *arvo, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arwa (“price, value”), of Indo-Iranic origin. Cognate to Finnish arvo.

aru (genitive aru, partitive aru)

1. reason, mind (ability for rational thought)

   Synonyms: mõistus, intellekt

   Kas sa oled aru kaotanud?

   Have you lost your mind?

2. (in set phrases) understanding

   aru saama ― to understand (literally, “to receive understanding”)

   aru andma ― to report (literally, “to give understanding”)

Declension of aru (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aru	arud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aru
genitive			arude
partitive		aru	arusid
illative		arru arusse	arudesse
inessive		arus	arudes
elative		arust	arudest
allative		arule	arudele
adessive		arul	arudel
ablative		arult	arudelt
translative		aruks	arudeks
terminative		aruni	arudeni
essive		aruna	arudena
abessive		aruta	arudeta
comitative		aruga	arudega

From Proto-Finnic *aro. Cognate with Finnish aro.

aru (genitive aru, partitive aru)

1. a kind of dry temperate grassland

   Synonyms: arumaa, aruheinamaa, aruniit

Declension of aru (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		aru	arud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	aru
genitive			arude
partitive		aru	arusid
illative		arru arusse	arudesse
inessive		arus	arudes
elative		arust	arudest
allative		arule	arudele
adessive		arul	arudel
ablative		arult	arudelt
translative		aruks	arudeks
terminative		aruni	arudeni
essive		aruna	arudena
abessive		aruta	arudeta
comitative		aruga	arudega

• aru in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “aru”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “aru”, in [SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012–

aru

1. Rōmaji transcription of ある
2. Rōmaji transcription of アル

Cognate with Aymara aru.

aru

1. to speak

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 75.

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăʔrəβ.

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru (verbal noun tira)

1. to write

   Synonyms: kteb, jerrer

   Ttarun tibratin.

   They're writing letters.

2. to be written

   Synonyms: ttwaru, ttwikteb

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[4], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France

Kanakanabu cardinal numbers

<  7	8	9  >
Cardinal : aru

From Proto-Tsouic *wálu, from Proto-Austronesian *walu.

aru

1. eight

aru

1. first-person singular present/past indicative of art

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/, [ˈa.ru]
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

aru (Lontara spelling ᨕᨑᨘ or 𑻱𑻭𑻴, definite arua)

1. a pledge of allegiance to a prince or ruler (traditionally performed by holding the hilt of a kris and stomping the ground, done by chiefs during inauguration or commanders before going to battle)

   Tasitujuami antu, bela, kanjaraʼnu riembaya arunu ribarugaya

   That is no longer in agreement, friend, with your stomping on the front yard and your pledge of allegiance in the assembly hall.

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Proto-Polynesian *qalu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaru/ [ˈɐɾʉ]

aru

1. chase
2. pursuit

aru (passive arumia)

1. to chase
2. to follow, pursue

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “aru”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

aru

1. (Lincolnshire and West Riding) alternative form of arwe

• earun, earon

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.ru/
• Rhymes: -ɑ.ru

aru

1. (contraction) Northumbrian form of earon

aru

1. third-person plural present indicative of vara

• IPA^(key): [aˈɾu]
• Rhymes: -u

aru (first-person singular active indicative aîaru, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîaruî, noun aru) (transitive)

1. to impede
2. to harm

aru (?)

1. Surinam toad (Pipa pipa)

• Nheengatu: arú
• → Brazilian Portuguese: aru

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

aru

1. first-person active indicative of eru

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “aru”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 63, columns 1–2

Borrowed from Old Tupi aru.

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: a‧ru

aru m (plural arus)

1. (Amazonas) Surinam toad (Pipa pipa)

   Synonyms: sapo-aru, sapo-do-surinã, sapo-pipa

   • 1949 June, Francisco Schaden, “Índios e caboclos: Páginas de etnografia, sociologia e folclore”, in Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume CXXV, year XV, São Paulo: FFCL-USP, O pão dos índios (section 2), page 31:

     O aru, sapo de forma achatada, vive de preferência nas clareiras da mata e nas plantações, mas nestas últimas sòmente quando limpas e bem cuidadas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “aru”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aru”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “aru”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “aru”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

aru

1. more (to make comparisons)

aru

1. forest

• aṛu
• arew, aṛew

Inherited from Proto-Berber *arəw.

• (Nador) IPA^(key): [ɑ.ɾˤʊ]
• Syllabification: a‧ru
• Rhymes: -ʊ

aru (verbal noun tarwa or arraw, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ) (transitive)

1. to give birth to

   Synonym: jj

2. to bear (fruit)

• Serhoual (2002)
• Abarrou (2024)

Inherited from Proto-Berber *arəw (“to give birth”). Cognate with Kabyle arew and possibly Egyptian jwr (“to conceive”).

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru (perfective uru, imperfective ttaru, verbal noun arra, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling آرو)

1. to give birth, to bear (a child)

   اورا تّارو تمغارت اد.

   ur a ttaru tmɣart ad.

   this woman is sterile (lit. this woman does not give birth.)

2. to lay (eggs)

   آبايح ار يتّارو تيڭلاي نّس غ لوضا.

   abayḥ ar ittaru tiglay nns ɣ luḍa.

   the partridge lays its eggs in uncultivated, fallow land.

3. to produce, to bear fruits (trees, plants)

   تاسافت ار تّارو وادرنا. ― tasaft ar ttaru wadrna ― the oak bears acorns.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /aru/

aru m (plural irattn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling آرو)

1. the smell given off by some types of fish

   آر اس تّينين علي يجّان اشكو يراتّن نس ور فولكين.

   ar as ttinin ʕli ij̣j̣an ašku irattn ns ur fulkin.

   He’s called Ali the stinky because he smells bad.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 A–E (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 391

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a hole

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. a wooden spoon

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɾu]

aru

1. (stative) to be complete

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