nanu

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Iraqw atén, Oromo nuyi, Saho nanu, Sidamo ninke and Somali annaga.

• IPA^(key): /nʌˈnu/
• Hyphenation: na‧nu

nanú

1. we

   Nanú sagá naxigillé. ― We are milking a cow.

   • Saytun Qhuraan kee kay maqnah tarjamaty Qafar afal tani [The clear Qur'an and its explanation translated into the Afar language]‎^[1], Suurat Al-Faatica, verse 5:

     Diggah nanu Ni Rabbow koo inkittosnaah Qibaada dibuk koo caglisna, nanu ni-caagiidah inkih cato koo esserra.

     Our God, with strength we make you whole, only you we give [our] adoration, we as one ask you for help with our afairs.

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “nanu”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 38
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• enanu, ñañu, naniu

From Latin nānus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanu/, [ˈna.nu]

nanu m sg (feminine singular nana, masculine plural nanos, feminine plural nanes)

1. dwarf

• nanismu

Borrowed from German Low German na (“well”) + nu (“now”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /naˈnuː/

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nanu

1. (chiefly Northern Germany) An expression of wonderment or confusion.
   • 2015 July 6, “Starts trotz Nachtflugverbot”, in Frankfurter Rundschau‎^[3]:

     Nanu, was macht denn der Flieger da zu so später Stunde?

     Well now, what is that plane doing there at so late an hour?

nanu

1. water

• A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
• Andrew K. Pawley, Malcolm D. Ross, Austronesian Terminolgies: Continuity and Change (1994), page 458

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anu, from Proto-Austronesian *(na-)nu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanu/ [ˈnäː.nu]

nánu

1. (interrogative) what

nanu

1. water

• A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

nanu

1. attributive of nanus

nanu

1. water

• A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)

nanu

1. to sing