kuu

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/, [ˈkuː]

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: kuu
• Homophone: q

From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Livonian kū, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Veps ku, ? Lule Sami guojijdit (“to rise (of the moon)”), kuojijtit, Erzya ков (kov), Moksha ков (kov), Khanty хўв (xŭw), Hungarian hó, Hungarian hold, Nganasan кичез̌әә (kičežəə), Kamassian ки (ki) and Mator [script needed] (kistit), compare also Northern Yukaghir киндьэ (kind̦e).

• Kuu

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1. moon
   1. A large luminous celestial body seen from the Earth at night.

      Kuu kadus pilve taha. ― The Moon disappeared behind a cloud.

   2. A natural satellite of any planet.

      Jupiteri kuud ― the moons of Jupiter

      Synonym: satelliit

2. month
   1. A period of 28 to 31 days, one twelfth of a year.

      Aasta lühim kuu on veebruar. ― The shortest month of the year is February.

   2. Any period of about 30 days.

      umbes kuus kuud tagasi ― about six months ago

Unlike in English, sense 1.1 is lowercased in most informal contexts. As an astronomical term however, it is capitalised (see Kuu).

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• (a natural satellite): satelliit

• kalender
• päev
• aeg
• nädal
• aasta
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregoriuse kalendri Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); jaanuar, veebruar, märts, aprill, mai, juuni, juuli, august, september, oktoober, november, detsember ^{(Category: et:Months)}

From Latin kū.

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1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.

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• kuu in Sõnaveeb

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/, [ˈkuː]

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Syllabification^(key): kuu

From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Erzya ков (kov) and Hungarian hold.

kuu

1. the moon (the Earth's moon)
2. (astronomy) moon, satellite (of a planet)

   Synonyms: kiertolainen, satelliitti

3. month (see usage notes)

   Synonym: kuukausi

   Missä kuussa olet syntynyt?

   What month were you born in?

• (moon): In general usage, kuu is spelled with a lower-case k when referring to the Earth's moon, as in Taivaalla loistaa kuu. (“The moon is shining in the sky.”). In astronomy, it is spelled with a capital K.
• (month): kuu is used for "month" when a calendar month is referred to without naming it, e.g. viime kuussa (“last month”), ensi kuun aikana (“within next month”). The word kuukausi is more commonly used for a month as a unit of time, but kuu can in some cases be used in that sense as well: kahden kuukauden loma (“a two months' vacation”) viisikuinen vauva (“a baby of five months”).

• adjectives: kuulas
• nouns: Kuu, kuutamo
• verbs: kuultaa, kumottaa, kuumottaa

(months):

• “kuu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kuje. Compare Erzya куя (kuja, “fat”).

kuu (dialectal)

1. animal fat, fat, tallow, especially in reindeer

• (fat): ihra, tali; eläinrasva

• kuuton

Koivulehto, Jorma: Pinta ja rasva, Virittäjä 1986, 164-177.

< Latin kū

kuu

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
2. The letter Q in the Finnish spelling alphabet.

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kuu (colloquial)

1. (counting) six

• kuusi (“six”)

From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/, [ˈkuː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/, [ˈkuː]
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: kuu

kuu

1. moon
2. month
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9:

     Șura siin kuus ei yhtkää kertaa mööhästynt.

     That month Šura wasn't late once.

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• (month): kuukaus (rare)

• (diminutive) kuuhut

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 225
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 72

kuu

1. Rōmaji transcription of くう

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *nguku.

kuu

1. water

• Barry J. Blake, A Kalkatungu Grammar (1979)
• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *kuu. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Veps ku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/
• Hyphenation: kuu

kuu (genitive kuun, partitive kuuta／kuuda)

1. month
2. (chiefly North Karelian) moon

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “kuu”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “kuu”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

• ku'

kuu

1. owl

From Proto-Finnic *kuu. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/
• Hyphenation: kuu
• Rhymes: -uː

kuu

1. month

(compounds):

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 129
• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “kuu”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

From Proto-Finnic *kuu.

kuu

1. month

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́dʊ́.

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-kuu (declinable)

1. great; main; chief

From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Uralic *kuŋe.

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1. moon
2. month

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kuu (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q.

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From Proto-Finnic *kuu, from Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Hungarian hold.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː/, [ˈkuː]
• Rhymes: -uː
• Hyphenation: kuu

kuu

1. moon
2. month

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