hiu

• escu, est

Inherited from Latin sum. The citation form and the h- conjugations come from Latin fīō (“become”). Compare Romanian fi.

hiu first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative easti, past participle futã)

1. to be

• hiri / hire
• fut
• hiintsã

From Proto-Central Polynesian *fiu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhi̯u/, [ˈhju]

hiu

1. to throw or fling violently, haul energetically with ropes

   Hiu nō au ā naʻu ʻoe.

   I'll sweep you off your feet.

2. get into action (as with play or sport)
3. to pursue with energy (as with love-making)

From Malay hiu (Standard yu), from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu, from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhi.u/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: hi‧u

hiu (first-person possessive hiuku, second-person possessive hiumu, third-person possessive hiunya)

1. shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

• yu (nonstandard)

• “hiu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu (compare Javanese ꦲꦶꦪꦸ (iyu), Fijian qio), from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

hiu (Jawi spelling هيو, plural hiu-hiu, informal 1st possessive hiuku, 2nd possessive hiumu, 3rd possessive hiunya)

1. Obsolete form of yu.

hiu (emphatic form hiuish)

1. second-person plural of hug

   to you

hīu (f) (Northumbrian)

1. Alternative form of hēo

hiu

1. Romanization of ᮠᮤᮅ

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

hiu

1. melancholic, gloomy, sad

hiu

1. (of wind, usually in the reduplicated form hiu hiu) gently, caressingly