# cu
## Translingual
### Symbol

cu
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Old Church Slavonic.

## Allentiac
### Pronoun

cu
* I, first-person singular

### References

* Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)
* Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin cum. Compare Romanian cu.

### Preposition

cu
* with

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku/ [ˈku]

### Preposition

cu
* (Cabrales) Alternative form of con

### Interjection

cu
* Interjection used repeatly to call those hiding in hide and seek

### Pronoun

cu
* (Somiedo, Armellada de Órbigo) Alternative form of que

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku]
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

cu f (plural cus)
* The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

## Central Mazahua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kʷ/

### Letter

cu (upper case Cu)
* A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 咕

### Etymology

Clipping of English cushion.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): ku$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ku$^1$
*** Yale: kū
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ku$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ku$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuː⁵⁵/

### Noun

cu
* (Hong Kong Cantonese, billiards, snooker, pool) cushion (lip around the table)
    撞cu [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― zong$^6$ ku$^1$ [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

## French
### Noun

cu m (plural cus)
* Alternative spelling of ku

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku/ [ˈku]
* Rhymes: -u

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuu, from Latin cūlum (“ass”). Cognate with Portuguese cu.

#### Noun

cu m (plural cus)
* (vulgar, anatomy) ass, arse, booty, rear, behind, butt, buttocks
    Synonyms: nádegas, pandeiro, traseiro
* (vulgar, anatomy) anus
** 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapa lle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçonprepare a enema with a long and thick cane and insert it in the anus of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the anus with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out
* bottom of a vessel or bottle

##### Derived terms

* a tomar polo cu
* cu da agulla
* cu de medo
* cueiro
* lamber o cu
* ollo do cu
* quen ten cu ten medo

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cu m
* (name of the letter q): Misspelling of que.

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cuu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cuu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cu”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin kū (the name of the letter Q).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku/
* Rhymes: -u
* Hyphenation: cù

### Noun

cu m or f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.; cue

#### 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

## Lower Sorbian
### Alternative forms

* com

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [t͡su]

### Verb

cu
* first-person singular present of kśěś

## Mandarin
### Romanization

cu
* Nonstandard spelling of cū.
* Nonstandard spelling of cú.
* Nonstandard spelling of cǔ.
* Nonstandard spelling of cù.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Noun

cu (plural ky)
* Alternative spelling of cou

## Middle Irish
### Noun

cu m
* Alternative spelling of cú

## Millcayac
### Pronoun

cu
* I, first-person singular

### References

* Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Latin cum (“with”).

### Preposition

cu
* with

## Occitan
### Noun

cu f (plural cus)
* cue (the letter q, Q)

## Old English
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuː/

### Noun

cū f (nominative plural cȳ)
* cow
** c. 992, Ælfric, "Of Saint James the Apostle"
    Ān cū wearþ ġebrōht tō þām temple þæt man hīe ġeoffrode.A cow was brought to the temple to be sacrificed.

#### Derived terms

* cūhierde
* cūwearm

#### Descendants

* Middle English: cou, cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku
** English: cow (see there for further descendants)
** Geordie English: coo
** Scots: coo, coe, cou
** Yola: keow

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* cú (misspelling)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cuu (“ass”), from Latin cūlum. Compare Galician cu, Spanish and Italian culo, French cul, and Romanian cur.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈku/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈku/
* Audio (Portugal):(file)
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

cu m (plural cus) (vulgar)
* buttocks; arse, ass, butt, bum
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nádegas
* anus; butthole
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ânus
* (Brazil) anything or anyone annoying, boring or somewhat bad
    Synonym: cuzão
    Essa música é um cu ― This song is ass

#### Usage notes

* In Brazil, the term refers strictly to the anus, not being used to mean the buttocks.

#### Derived terms

* até o cu fazer bico
* azedar o cu do frango
* contar com os ovos no cu da galinha
* cu azul
* cu de Judas
* cu de sono
* cu do mundo
* cuceta
* cueiro
* cunheta
* cuzão
* cuzinho
* cuzudo
* dar o cu
* de cair o cu da bunda
* dedo no cu e gritaria
* fazer cu doce
* ficar com o cu na mão
* fogo no cu
* ir ao cu
* levar no cu
* olho do cu
* quem tem cu tem medo
* tomar no cu

#### Related terms

* culote

## Romagnol
### Noun

cu m or f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cum, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with Sicilian cu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku/
* Rhymes: -u
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

cu (+accusative)
* with
    Vreau să vin cu tine.I want to come with you.
* with (in the instrumental sense)
    Vin cu bicicleta.I come by bicycle.
    Lovesc o oglindă cu ciocanul.I hit a mirror with the hammer.

#### Usage notes

Cu is the only preposition (other than very specific uses of pe and la) that can be followed by an articulated noun without any modifier (an adjective or a possessive or demonstrative pronoun, primarily).

### References

* cu in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* che (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
* ca (Sutsilvan)
* tgi (Surmiran)
* co (Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin quod.

### Conjunction

cu
* (Puter) than

## Sicilian
### Etymology 1

From Latin cum. Compare Italian con, Neapolitan cu, Romanian cu.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku/ (Stressed)
* IPA: /ku/ (Unstressed)
* Rhymes: -cu
* Hyphenation: cu

#### Preposition

cu
* with

##### Usage notes

* When followed by a definite article, cu combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:
    cu + article Combined form cu + u cû cu + lu cu lu cu + a câ cu + la cu la cu + i chî cu + li cu li cu + l' cu l'

##### Related terms

* 'n
* a
* di
* ncapu
* ncoḍḍu
* nfra
* nna
* nne
* nni
* ntra
* pi
* supra

#### See also
### Etymology 2

From an inflection of Latin quis. Akin to chi and ca.

#### Pronoun

cu
* who
* that

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku/ [ˈku]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: cu

### Noun

cu f (plural cus or cúes)
* Name of the letter q

### Further reading

* “cu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cu, the Spanish name of the letter Q/q.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈku/ [ˈku]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: cu
* Homophones: Coo, Cu, Khoo

### Noun

cu (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ) (historical)
* the name of the Latin-script letter Q/q, in the Abecedario
    Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) kyu

## Tarantino
### Etymology

From Latin cum.

### Preposition

cu
* with

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʒʊ/

### Interjection

cu
* (chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to rhyme with "ananın amcuğu" (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).
    "Cu'da bomba patlamış, duydun mu?" "Cu neresi?" "ANANIN AMCUĞUUUUU"

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ku˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [kʊw˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [kʊw˧˧]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *t-kuː (“dove”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Kha Phong təkuː¹. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.
This is the form without both diphthongization and lenition. Also in common use are câu, bồ câu, both with diphthongization. The form gâu (in chim gâu) with both diphthongization and lenition is also attested.

#### Noun

(classifier con) cu • (鴝) (phonemic reduplicative cu cu)
* dove; pigeon (especially the wild ones)

##### See also

* gầm ghì
* cu đất
* cu gáy

#### Interjection

cu • (鴝)
* (onomatopoeia) coo

### Etymology 2

From etymology 1. For semantic relationship, compare English cock, Chinese 屌 (diǎo), 鳥 / 鸟 (“bird”), Cantonese 㞗, 鳩 / 鸠 (“pigeon”), Thai นกเขา (nók-kǎo, “pigeon”). Also see cò, chim.

#### Noun

(classifier con) cu
* (anatomy, informal) penis; cock; prick

##### See also

* chim; dái; cặc; buồi

#### Noun

cu • (俱)
* (colloquial) boy
    Thằng cu đó quậy thật.He's one mischievous boy.
    Cu Tí ơi!Hey, Ti-boy!
    Ê cu! Lại đây biểu!Hey boy! Come here!

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh ku, from Proto-Brythonic *kʉβ̃ (compare Breton kuñv), from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“dear, nice”) (compare Old Irish cóem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“of the home, belonging to the family”) (compare English home, Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), Sanskrit क्षेम (kṣéma, “basis, foundation”)).

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /kɨː/
* (South Wales) IPA: /kiː/
* Homophone: ci (South Wales only)

### Adjective

cu (feminine singular cu, plural cu, equative cued, comparative cuach, superlative cuaf)
* dear, beloved
    Synonyms: annwyl, hoff

#### Derived terms

* mamgu
* tadcu

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies