daju

See also: dàjú

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdaju]

Verb

daju

  1. first-person singular present of daś
  2. third-person plural present of daś

Synonyms

  • (first-person singular): dajom

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

daju (Cyrillic spelling дају)

  1. third-person plural present of davati

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dahu]

Noun

daju

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) bamboo

References

  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “dahu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “dahu”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

Yoruba

Etymology 1

From (to be sharp, to be vocal) + ojú (face), literally to be vocal in the face.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/

Verb

dájú

  1. to be heartless, to be mean
    Synonym: ṣekà
Derived terms
  • adájú (wicked person)
  • ọ̀dájú (callous person)
  • ìdájú (heartlessness, wickedness)

Etymology 2

Same as Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dá.d͡ʒú/

Verb

dájú

  1. to be sure of something, to be certain
    Synonym: dálójú
    ó dájú pé yóò jọbaIt is certain that he will be king
Derived terms
  • ìdájú (certainty)

Adverb

dájú

  1. certainly, surely
    Synonym: dájú-dájú
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