cu

cu

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Old Church Slavonic.

cu

1. I, first-person singular

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

From Latin cum. Compare Romanian cu.

cu

1. with

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/ [ˈku]

cu

1. (Cabrales) alternative form of con

cu

1. Interjection used repeatly to call those hiding in hide and seek

cu

1. (Somiedo, Armellada de Órbigo) alternative form of que

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku]
• Rhymes: -u

cu f (plural cus)

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

• IPA^(key): /kʷ/

cu (upper case Cu)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ⱥ ⱥ, A̱ a̱, B b, C c, Cꞌ cꞌ, Cj cj, Cu cu, Cꞌu cꞌu, Cju cju, Ch ch, Chꞌ chꞌ, Chj chj, D d, Dy dy, E e, Ɇ ɇ, E̱ e̱, G g, Gu gu, Hu hu, ꞌHu ꞌhu, I i, I̱ i̱, J j, Jꞌ jꞌ, Jm jm, Jn jn, Jñ jñ, Ju ju, Jy jy, L l, M m, Mꞌ mꞌ, N n, Nꞌ nꞌ, Ñ ñ, Ñꞌ ñꞌ, O o, Ø ø, O̱ o̱, P p, Pj pj, R r, S s, T t, Tꞌ tꞌ, Tj tj, Ts ts, Tsꞌ tsꞌ, Tsj tsj, U u, Ꞹ ꞹ, U̱ u̱, X x, Z z, Zh zh, ꞌ

• 咕

Clipping of English cushion.

cu

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, billiards, snooker, pool) cushion (lip around the table)

   撞cu [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  zong⁶ ku¹ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

cu m (plural cus)

1. alternative spelling of ku

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/ [ˈku]
• Rhymes: -u

From Old Galician-Portuguese cuu, from Latin cūlum (“ass”). Cognate with Portuguese cu.

cu m (plural cus)

1. (vulgar, anatomy) ass, arse, booty, rear, behind, butt, buttocks

   Synonyms: nádegas, pandeiro, traseiro

2. (vulgar, anatomy) anus
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:

     faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapa lle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçon

     prepare a enema with a long and thick cane and insert it in the anus of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the anus with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out

3. bottom of a vessel or bottle

cu m

1. (name of the letter q): misspelling of que

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cuu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cuu”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cu”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin kū (the name of the letter Q).

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: cù

cu m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.; cue

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Cognate with S'gaw Karen စု (su), Eastern Pwo စူး (cɯ́), Western Pwo စူၪ, Pa'o Karen စူ, Bwe Karen cū, Geba Karen cuhlè.

cu

1. hand

• com

• IPA^(key): [t͡su]

cu

1. first-person singular present of kśěś

cu

1. nonstandard spelling of cū
2. nonstandard spelling of cú
3. nonstandard spelling of cǔ
4. nonstandard spelling of cù

• 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.

cu

1. alternative form of cow

cu m

1. alternative spelling of cú

cu

1. I, first-person singular

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913)

From Latin cum (“with”).

cu

1. with

cu f (plural cus)

1. cue (the letter q, Q)

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

cū f (nominative plural cȳ)

1. cow
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Of Saint James the Apostle"

     Ān cū wearþ ġebrōht tō þām temple þæt man hīe ġeoffrode.

     A cow was brought to the temple to be sacrificed.

• cūhierde
• cūwearm

• Middle English: cow, cou, cowe, cu, kow, kowe, ku
  • English: cow (see there for further descendants)

    Geordie: coo

    Ottawa Valley: cou, ceu, kew

    West Riding: caa, cah

  • Scots: coo, coe, cou
  • Yola: keow

• cú (misspelling)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cuu (“ass”), from Latin cūlum. Compare Galician cu, Spanish and Italian culo, French cul, and Romanian cur.

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -u

cu m (plural cus) (vulgar)

1. buttocks; arse, ass, butt, bum

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nádegas

2. anus; butthole

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ânus

3. (Brazil) anything or anyone annoying, boring or somewhat bad

   Synonym: cuzão

   Essa música é um cu ― This song is ass

• In Brazil, the term refers generally to the anus, only sometimes and not preferably being used to mean the buttocks.

• culote

cu m or f (invariable)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta

Inherited from Latin cum, from Proto-Italic *kom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”). Cognate with Sicilian cu.

• IPA^(key): /ku/
• Rhymes: -u

• Audio:

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cu (+accusative)

1. with

   Vreau să vin cu tine.

   I want to come with you.

2. with (in the instrumental sense)

   Vin cu bicicleta.

   I come by bicycle.

   Lovesc o oglindă cu ciocanul.

   I hit a mirror with the hammer.

Cu is the only preposition (other than very specific uses of pe and la) that can be followed by an articulated noun without any modifier (an adjective or a possessive or demonstrative pronoun, primarily).

• “cu”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• che (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• ca (Sutsilvan)
• tgi (Surmiran)
• co (Vallader)

From Latin quod.

cu

1. (Puter) than

From Latin cum. Compare Italian con, Neapolitan cu, Romanian cu.

• IPA^(key): /ku/ (Stressed)
• IPA^(key): /ku/ (Unstressed)
• Rhymes: -cu
• Hyphenation: cu

cu

1. with

• When followed by a definite article, cu combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:

cu + article	Combined form
cu + u	cû
cu + lu	cu lu
cu + a	câ
cu + la	cu la
cu + i	chî
cu + li	cu li
cu + l'	cu l'

From an inflection of Latin quis. Akin to chi and ca.

cu

1. who
2. that

• IPA^(key): /ˈku/ [ˈku]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: cu

cu f (plural cus or cúes)

1. Name of the letter q

• “cu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish cu, the Spanish name of the letter Q / q.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈku/ [ˈku]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: cu
• Homophones: Coo, Cu, Khoo

cu (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ) (historical)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter Q/q, in the Abecedario

   Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) kyu

From Latin cum.

cu

1. with

• IPA^(key): /dʒʊ/

cu

1. (chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to rhyme with "ananın amcuğu" (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).

   "Cu'da bomba patlamış, duydun mu?" "Cu neresi?" "ANANIN AMCUĞUUUUU"

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ku˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kʊw˧˧]

From Proto-Vietic *t-kuː (“dove”); ultimately onomatopoeic. Cognate with Kha Phong təkuː¹. Compare Thai เขา (kǎo), Chinese 鳩 (OC *[k](r)u) (B-S), Burmese ခို (hkui), English coo.

This is the form without both diphthongization and lenition. Also in common use are câu, bồ câu, both with diphthongization. The form gâu (in chim gâu) with both diphthongization and lenition is also attested.

(classifier con) cu • (鴝) (phonemic reduplicative cu cu)

1. dove; pigeon (especially the wild ones)

• gầm ghì

cu • (鴝)

1. (onomatopoeia) coo

From etymology 1. For semantic relationship, compare English cock, Chinese 屌 (diǎo), 鳥 / 鸟 (“bird”), Cantonese 㞗, 鳩 / 鸠 (“pigeon”), Thai นกเขา (nók-kǎo, “pigeon”). Also see cò, chim.

(classifier con) cu

1. (anatomy, informal) penis; cock; prick

• chim; dái; cặc; buồi

cu • (俱)

1. (colloquial) boy

   Thằng cu đó quậy thật.

   He's one mischievous boy.

   Cu Tí ơi!

   Hey, Ti-boy!

   Ê cu! Lại đây biểu!

   Hey boy! Come here!

From Middle Welsh ku, from Proto-Brythonic *kʉβ̃ (compare Breton kuñv), from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“dear, nice”) (compare Old Irish cóem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“of the home, belonging to the family”) (compare English home, Lithuanian káimas (“village, countryside”), Sanskrit क्षेम (kṣéma, “basis, foundation”)).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kiː/
• Homophone: ci (South Wales only)

cu (feminine singular cu, plural cu, equative cued, comparative cuach, superlative cuaf)

1. dear, beloved

   Synonyms: annwyl, hoff

• mam-gu
• tad-cu

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies