# cou
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔw]

### Verb

cou
* inflection of coure:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## French
### Etymology

From Latin collum. Doublet of col. Cognate with Italian collo, Galician and Portuguese colo, Spanish cuello.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ku/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -u
* Homophones: coud, couds, coup, coups, cous, coût, coûts

### Noun

cou m (plural cous)
* neck
    Il a un cou assez long. ― He has a rather long neck.

#### Derived terms

* collet
* collier
* être dans la merde jusqu’au cou
* prendre ses jambes à son cou
* se jeter au cou de quelqu’un
* tordre le cou

### Further reading

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

## K'iche'
### Adjective

cou
* (Classical K'iche') strong

#### Derived terms

* couil
* couirizah
* couiric
* couizah

## Mandarin
### Romanization

cou
* Nonstandard spelling of cǒu.
* Nonstandard spelling of còu.

#### 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
### Alternative forms

* cow, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English cū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuː/

### Noun

cou (plural kyne or kie)
* A cow (female bovine)

#### Related terms

* couherde

#### Descendants

* English: cow (see there for further descendants)
* Geordie English: coo
* Scots: coo, coe, cou
* Yola: keow

#### References

* “cǒu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃoː.u/

### Verb

cou
* (transitive) alternative spelling of coou (“to serve”)

#### Conjugation
### References

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

## Xerénte
### Noun

cou
* Alternative form of kə (“water”)

### References

* Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuː/
* Homophone: kewe

### Verb

cou
* could
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 84:Aar gentrize ware bibbern, aamzil cou no stoane.Their gentry were quaking, themselves could not stand.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /ɕou˨˦/
* Tone numbers: cou$^1$
* Hyphenation: cou

### Etymology 1

From Chinese 秋 (MC tshjuw).

#### Noun

cou (Sawndip form ⿱日召, 1957–1982 spelling cou)
* autumn

### Etymology 2

From Chinese 周 (MC tsyuw).

#### Classifier

cou (1957–1982 spelling cou)
* week

#### See also

* singhgiz
* lijbai

### Etymology 3

From Chinese 抽 (MC trhjuw).

#### Verb

cou (1957–1982 spelling cou)
* to draw (lots)