anku

• IPA^(key): [aŋku]

anku

1. a fragrant watercress-like herb mixed with water, salt, and possibly other herbs to ritually bathe a newborn baby and its mother for the first three months after birth, as well as to bathe the dead

• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 224
• Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 108, 137–139, 145

• IPA^(key): /ɑːnˈkʊ/

anku (Arabic spelling ئانکو‎)

1. Alternative form of ango (“that is to say”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “anku”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 9

• hank'u (Cusco)

anku

1. resistant, elastic, resilient

anku

1. cord, whip
2. tube
3. tendon, nerve
4. blood vessel
5. hardness
6. squash, family Cucurbitaceae
7. liana
8. root