# adu
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

adu
* imperative of adi

## Gun
### Alternative forms

* aɖú (Benin)

### Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *aɖú. Cognates include Fon aɖǔ, Saxwe Gbe aɖú, Aja aɖu

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ɖú/

### Noun

adú (plural adú lẹ́) (Nigeria)
* tooth

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔá.dú/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔá.dɪ́]

### Noun

adu f (possessed form adun)
* smallpox

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒdu]
* Hyphenation: adu
* Rhymes: -du

### Noun

adu (plural aduk)
* trump (the suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* adu in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* adu in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* adoe (1901–1947)

### Etymology

From Malay adu, from Classical Malay ادو (adu), from Old Malay hadu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈadu/
* Hyphenation: adu

### Verb

adu
* to compete, to contest
* to complain

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

### Noun

adu
* competition
    Synonym: lomba
* cockfight

### Derived terms

* aduan
* beradu
* memperadukan
* mengadu
* mengadukan
* pengadu
* pengaduan
* peraduan
* teradu
* teradukan
* adu bagong
* adu banteng
* adu cepat
* adu jangkrik
* adu jotos
* adu kambing
* adu kekuatan
* adu lari
* adu lengan
* adu mulut
* adu nasib
* adu pagar
* adu pandang
* adu penalti

### Further reading

* “adu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Javanese
### Romanization

adu
* Romanization of ꦲꦢꦸ

## Latvian
### Verb

adu
* first-person singular present indicative of adīt

## Limos Kalinga
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hadu, from Proto-Austronesian *Sadu. Cognate with Puyuma sadru and Yami aro.

### Adjective

adú
* many

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* ادو

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈadu/
* Hyphenation: adu

### Etymology 1

From Classical Malay ادو (adu), from Old Malay hadu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”). See beradu.

#### Verb

adu
* to compete, to contest.
    Mereka sedang adu tenaga.They are currently competing in strength.
* to fight.
    Dia adu musuhnya seorang diri.He fought his enemy alone.
* to complain

#### Noun

adu (plural adu-adu, informal 1st possessive aduku, 2nd possessive adumu, 3rd possessive adunya)
* competition; usually as peraduan.

##### Derived terms

* adukan
* beradu
* diadu
* diadukan
* mengadu
* mengadukan
* peraduan

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

adu
* (royal, poetic) to sleep. See beradu.

### Further reading

* “adu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑːˈdʊ/

### Noun

adu m (Arabic spelling ئادو)
* Alternative form of edû (“enemy; rival”)

#### Declension
### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “adu”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 2

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *adu (“compete, confront in a contest”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.du/
* Rhymes: -du
* Homophones: aḍu, aḍū
* Hyphenation: a‧du

### Verb

adu
* to stand opposite
* to face, to meet

#### Derived terms

* adon-adon
* apaṅadwa
* aṅadoni
* aṅadu
* aṅadu-adu
* aṅadwakĕn
* aṅadwani
* inadu
* inadwakĕn
* inadwan
* madu
* paṅadwa
* pinadwakĕn
* pādwakĕna
* adu manis
* aṅadu piśuna
* inadu caṇḍi
* maṅadu minda

#### Descendants

* > Javanese: ꦲꦢꦸ (adu) (inherited)

### Further reading

* "adu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈadu]

### Verb

adu
* second-person singular imperative of aduce

## Tarifit
### Preposition

adu (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴷⵓ)
* under, underneath
    Synonym: sadu
    adu tfřewtUnder the wood.

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.du/

### Noun

adu
* spleen

### References

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

## Torricelli
### Noun

adu
* a type of mushroom

### References

* Drinfeld, Andrey. 2023. Aro-English / English-Aro Dictionary. Ms. 112pp.

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.d̪u/

### Verb

adu
* (transitive) to fell a tree
    Synonym: telo

#### Conjugation
### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics