kuru

From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”).[1][2] Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʉː.ɹʉː/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊ.ɹuː/

kuru (uncountable)

1. A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
   • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 273:

     By the late 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

   Synonyms: laughing death, laughing sickness

• Uruk, ruku'

• kur (apocopic)

• IPA^(key): /kùꜛɾú/
• (rendaku) IPA^(key): /ɡùꜛɾú/

kuru (Kana spelling クル, plural utara)

1. (with modifiers) person

   repunkuru ― foreigner (literally, “person in the sea”)

   tan kuru ― this person

This word is similar in usage to Japanese 者(もの) (mono), in the sense that it cannot stand in a sentence as an independent word and is never used without a modifier.

• pe (“thing”)

kuru

1. sleep

• Handschuh, Corinna (2014) A typology of marked-S languages

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuru/

kuru

1. dative singular of kur
2. locative singular of kur

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuru]
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• Rhymes: -uru
• Hyphenation: ku‧ru

kuru

1. imperative of kuri

From Proto-Central-Pacific *kuru, from Proto-Oceanic *kuruq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *guruq.

kuru (plural kurukuru)

1. thunder (sound caused by a lightning)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuru/, [ˈkuru]
• Rhymes: -uru
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧ru

From Proto-Finnic *kuru (compare Estonian kuru), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kure (compare Komi-Zyrian кыр (kyr), Eastern Mari курык (kuryk), Khanty кор (kor)).

kuru

1. (geography) gorge, gulch, ravine, flume (narrow v-shaped valley, often with water running through)

   Hypernym: rotko

2. canyon

   Synonyms: kanjoni, rotko

• tunturikuru

From English kuru, from Fore kúru (“trembling, shivering; kuru”).

kuru

1. (pathology) kuru

• kare
• kuri
• kuurna

• urku

From Portuguese couro.

kuru

1. skin
2. leather

kuru

1. Rōmaji transcription of くる

• Carakan: ꦏꦸꦫꦸ

kuru (ngoko kuru, krama kera)

1. skinny

Cognate with Komo kura (“donkey”).

kuru

1. donkey

• Goldberg, Justin; Asadik, Habte; Bekama, Jiregna; Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

kuru

1. accusative singular masculine form of kurš
2. instrumental singular masculine form of kurš
3. genitive plural masculine form of kurš
4. accusative singular feminine form of kurš
5. instrumental singular feminine form of kurš
6. genitive plural feminine form of kurš

kuru

1. 1st person singular present indicative form of kurt

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuru/

kuru

1. accusative singular of kura
2. instrumental singular of kura

• IPA^(key): /ku.ru/, [kʉ.ɾʉ]

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kuluʀ. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻulu, Fijian kulu, Malay kulur.

kuru

1. breadfruit

   Kīhai te kuru, te niu me te panana i tipu ki Aotearoa nei – he tipu ēnei i mauria haere e ngā tīpuna Māori i ō rātou torotoronga i Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.

   Breadfruit, coconut palms and bananas did not grow in New Zealand – these were plants Māori ancestors carried throughout the Pacific in their explorations.

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *kulu (“to strike”).

kuru (passive kurua or kurungia or kurutia)

1. to strike with a fist; to pound or thump

kuru

1. mallet; fragment; hammer-head stone

kuru

1. (Ngan'gimerri) water

   Synonym: (Ngan'gikurunggurr) kuri

• Tryon, Darrell T. (1970) An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (quoted online in ASJP)

kuru

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• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ru/
• Rhymes: -uru
• Syllabification: ku‧ru

kuru m inan

1. genitive singular of kur

Borrowed from Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”).

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: ku‧ru

kuru m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) kuru (central nervous system disease among the Fore people)

• “kuru” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

kuru

1. worm, caterpillar

kuru

1. woman

• Palmer, Bill (2017) The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, →ISBN, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages, page 531

From Proto-Bantu *-kʊ́dʊ́.

-kúrú

1. big, large

   Antonym: -diki

2. great

   Antonym: -diki

3. adult

   Antonym: -diki

• ukuru (“greatness”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuru]

kuru f

1. accusative singular of kura

From Ottoman Turkish قورو‎, from Proto-Turkic *kūr. Cognate with Azerbaijani quru, Tatar коры (qorı), Karachay-Balkar къуру (quru), Uzbek quruq, Uyghur قۇرۇق‎ (quruq), Khakas хуруғ (xuruğ), Chuvash хӑрӑк (hărăk, “dry (of wood)”).

kuru

1. dry

   Antonyms: yaş, nemli

2. emaciated
3. depleted

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قورو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1485

kuru

1. definite accusative singular of kur

Possibly related to kūrū̀

• IPA^(key): /kú.ɾú/

kúrú

1. to be short

   Antonym: ga