tupu - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 Chamorro
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Noun
• 2 Lower Sorbian
  • 2.1 Adjective
• 3 Māori
  • 3.1 Alternative forms
  • 3.2 Etymology
  • 3.3 Pronunciation
  • 3.4 Verb
    * 3.4.1 Derived terms
  • 3.5 Adjective
    * 3.5.1 Derived terms
  • 3.6 Noun
  • 3.7 Further reading
• 4 Purepecha
  • 4.1 Noun
• 5 Quechua
  • 5.1 Noun
    * 5.1.1 Declension
    * 5.1.2 See also
• 6 Samoan
  • 6.1 Noun
    * 6.1.1 See also
• 7 Swahili
  • 7.1 Etymology
  • 7.2 Pronunciation
  • 7.3 Adjective
    * 7.3.1 Declension
    * 7.3.2 Derived terms
  • 7.4 Noun
    * 7.4.1 Derived terms

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Proto-Austronesian (compare Indonesian tebu, Fijian dovu).

tupu

1. sugarcane

tupu

1. feminine accusative singular of tupy

• tipu

From Proto-Polynesian *tupu, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tubuq, from Proto-Austronesian *Cubuq (compare Malay tumbuh).

• IPA(key): /ˈtupu/ [ˈtʉpʉ]

tupu (passive tupuria)

1. (Western dialect) to grow, to increase

• tuputupu (“grow, develop”, verb)
• whakatupu (“rear”, verb)

tupu

1. real, own, ancestral

• reo tupu (“mother tongue”)

tupu

1. seedling, shoot, bud

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “tupu”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

tupu

1. obsolete spelling of túpu

tupu

1. measure of weight or land
2. measuring tape
3. fastening pin for a woman's shawl
4. dimension
5. leather bag for storing honey

• tupuy

tupu

1. reigning king or queen

• ali'i
• matai
• masiofo

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

-tupu (declinable)

1. bare
2. empty

• Nominal derivations:
  • utupu (“emptiness; nudity, nakedness”)

tupu class IX (plural **tupu class X)

1. (euphemistic) private parts (intimate parts of the human body)

• tupu ya mbele (“genitalia”)
• tupu ya nyuma (“anus, rectum”)

Categories:

• Chamorro terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
• Chamorro lemmas
• Chamorro nouns
• Lower Sorbian non-lemma forms
• Lower Sorbian adjective forms
• Māori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
• Māori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
• Māori terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic
• Māori terms derived from Proto-Oceanic
• Māori terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
• Māori terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
• Māori terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
• Māori terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
• Māori terms with IPA pronunciation
• Māori lemmas
• Māori verbs
• Māori adjectives
• Māori nouns
• Purepecha lemmas
• Purepecha nouns
• Purepecha obsolete forms
• Quechua lemmas
• Quechua nouns
• Samoan lemmas
• Samoan nouns
• sm:Leaders
• sm:Monarchy
• Swahili terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
• Swahili terms derived from Proto-Bantu
• Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
• Swahili lemmas
• Swahili adjectives
• Swahili nouns
• Swahili class IX nouns
• Swahili euphemisms