# ahu
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Persian آهو (âhu).

#### Noun

ahu (plural ahus)
* The goitered gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Rapa Nui ahu.

#### Noun

ahu (plural ahus or ahu)
* On Rapa Nui, a stone platform on which moai (statues) were erected.

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “ahu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Hau, Hua

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

ahu f (definite ahuja) (dialectal, Shkodër)
* fine (payment)
    Synonym: gjobë

#### References

* “ahú-ja”, in Edukata e Ré. Revistë pedagogjike (in Albanian), number 2, Tirana: Gutenberg, 1930, page 70a
* Mann, S. E. (1948) “ahú”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 3a

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

ahu (dialectal)
* Alternative form of ashtu

#### References

* Mann, S. E. (1948) “ahú”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 3a

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

ahu
* inflection of ah:
** definite nominative
** indefinite dative/ablative

## Estonian

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### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *aho (“a glade”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (“ash, ashes”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂e(H)s- (“to dry, burn”), from *h₂eh₁-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑhu/, [ˈɑɦu]
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* Rhymes: -ɑhu
* Hyphenation: a‧hu

### Noun

ahu (genitive ahu, partitive ahu)
* a glade (grassy open or cleared space in a forest, especially one that is a result of slash-and-burn cultivation)
    noor perenaine tegi tule ahule ja lüpsis sääl esimest korda oma lehma ― the young hostess lit the fire in the glade and milked a cow for the first time
* (dialectal) dry and high land with a thin layer of soil (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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#### Declension
### References

* “ahu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* ahu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

### Anagrams

* auh, hau, uha

## Hadza
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔaɦu/

### Noun

ahu m (masc. plural ahubii, fem. ahuko, fem. plural ahubee)
* skin (fem. = thick or piece of skin)

#### Usage notes

The form after a determiner ahu. (clarification of this definition is needed)

## Kambera
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu.

### Noun

ahu
* dog (animal)

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Kisar
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *asu.

### Noun

ahu
* dog (animal)

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Komodo
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

### Pronoun

ahu
* I (personal pronoun)
* me (direct object of a verb)
* me (object of a preposition)
* me (indirect object of a verb)
* my (belonging to me)

## Maori
### Verb

ahu
* to care for

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀳𑀼 (Brahmi script)
* अहु (Devanagari script)
* অহু (Bengali script)
* අහු (Sinhalese script)
* အဟု or ဢႁု (Burmese script)
* อหุ or อะหุ (Thai script)
* ᩋᩉᩩ (Tai Tham script)
* ອຫຸ or ອະຫຸ (Lao script)
* អហុ (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄦𑄪 (Chakma script)

### Verb

ahu
* second/third-person singular aorist active of hoti (“to be”)

## Pohnpeian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɐːu/

### Noun

ahu
* mouth

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈu/

### Noun

ahu m (plural ahus)
* (rare) ahu (stone platform for moai)

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qafu (“heap”). Cognates include Hawaiian ahu (“altar”) and Maori ahu (“to heap up”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.hu/
* Hyphenation: a‧hu

### Noun

ahu
* stone platform under a statue, especially a mo'ai

#### Descendants

* → English: ahu
* → Portuguese: ahu
* → Spanish: ahu

### References

* Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 167

## Spanish
### Noun

ahu m (plural ahus)
* ahu, stone platform for mo'ai

## Ternate
### Etymology

From Proto-North Halmahera *oho (“live”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈa.hu]

### Verb

ahu
* (intransitive) to live, grow

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
* Gary Holton, Marian Klamer (2018) The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head‎

## Toba Batak
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aku, from Proto-Austronesian *aku.

### Pronoun

ahu
* I (personal pronoun)
* me (direct object of a verb)
* me (object of a preposition)
* me (indirect object of a verb)
* my (belonging to me)