# vu
## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin vōs.

### Pronoun

vu
* (second-person plural pronoun) you, you all, ye

#### Related terms

* voi

#### See also

* ju
* te
* jal, jala
* nu
* jali, jale

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vu]
* Hyphenation: vu

### Noun

vu
* Alternative form of vuo

## Fijian
### Noun

vu
* root
    Synonym: waka

## French
### Etymology

Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt, possibly corresponding to a Vulgar Latin *vidūtus in place of Latin vīsus. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vy/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: vue, vues, vus
* Hyphenation: vu

### Participle

vu (feminine vue, masculine plural vus, feminine plural vues)
* past participle of voir
    J’ai vu ce film.I’ve seen this film.

#### Derived terms

* déjà-vu

### Preposition

vu
* given (based on)
    Vu le nombre de personnes ici, il vaut mieux partir !Given the number of people here, we're better off leaving!

#### Usage notes

As a preposition, vu is invariable, never agreeing with the element it precedes.

#### Derived terms

* au vu de
* au vu et au su de
* vu que

### Further reading

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

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from French vous, Italian voi, Spanish vos, Russian вы (vy), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yū́, with the Ido ending +‎ -u.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vu/

### Pronoun

vu (plural vi)
* (formal) you (singular)

#### Synonyms

* tu (informal)

#### Derived terms

* vua
* vuo
* vui
* via
* vio
* vii

### See also
## Italian
### Alternative forms

* vi

### Etymology

From Latin ū (the name of the letter V).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvu/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: vù

### Noun

vu f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter V/v.; vee

#### Derived terms

* doppia vu
* tivù

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

## Japanese
### Romanization

vu
* The hiragana syllable ゔ (vu) or the katakana syllable ヴ (vu) in Hepburn romanization.

## Lolopo
### Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *ʔu¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꃶ (vu), Burmese အူ (u).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vɤ³³]

### Noun

vu
* (Yao'an) intestines

## Miji
### Noun

vu
* (Western or Eastern) water

### References

* Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011); see also Roger Blench, The Mijiic languages: distribution, dialects, wordlist and classification (2015)
* ASJP

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀼 (Brahmi script)
* वु (Devanagari script)
* ৰু (Bengali script)
* වු (Sinhalese script)
* ဝု (Burmese script)
* วุ (Thai script)
* ᩅᩩ (Tai Tham script)
* ວຸ (Lao script)
* វុ (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄪 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Possibly extracted from saṃvuta, or more likely from the expected but unattested Pali present stem development *vuṇāti of Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇoti).

### Noun

vu m
* The Pali root var
    Synonym: vara
** c. 500 AD, Dhatumañjusa; republished in Dines Andersen & Helmer Smith, The Pāli Dhātupāṭha and the Dhātumañjūsā, Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Host & son, 1921, page 46:121. Su savane saka sattimhi khi khayamhi gi saddane apa sambhu ca pāpuṇane hi gatimhi vu saṃvare.121. Su for listening, sak for strength, / khī for dimunition, ge for sound / ap for progeny and attainment / hi for gone, var for restraint.

### References

* 1 2 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vuṇāti”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
* ↑ Warder A.K. (2001) Introduction to Pali (overall work in English), Oxford: The Pali Text Society, page 380: “var (I) varati vuta -vari varissati varitvā”

## Prasuni
### Etymology

From earlier *vřu, from Proto-Nuristani *upařota, derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hráwtas. Compare Ashkun ẓo, Kamkata-viri řu, Waigali vřu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈβu/ (tone class B)

### Noun

vu (Pronz)
* intestines

### References

* ↑ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “v′u”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

## Serbo-Croatian
### Preposition

vu (Cyrillic spelling ву)
* (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, at
* (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) to, into
* (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
* (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, during (in expressions concerning time)

#### Synonyms

* u, v, f

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 誣.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [vu˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [vʊw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [vʊw˧˧] ~ [jʊw˧˧]

### Verb

vu
* to slander, to libel

#### See also

* vu cáo
* vu khống
* vu oan