ulu

From Inuktitut ᐅᓗ (olo, “woman's knife”).

ulu (plural ulus or uluit)

1. An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.

Hawaiian ʻulu.

ulu

1. (Hawaii) breadfruit

From Malay ulu.

ulu (comparative more ulu, superlative most ulu)

1. (Singapore) remote; deserted
   • 2007, Neil Humphreys, Complete Notes from Singapore: The Omnibus Edition, page 157:

     Sembawang Park is considered to be one of the country's most ulu spots because of its comparative isolation, and it was almost empty.

• Luu

From Common Turkic *ulug.

• IPA^(key): [uˈɫu]
• Hyphenation: u‧lu

ulu

1. great (magnificent)
2. great (degree of kinship)

   ulu baba ― great-grandfather

3. ancient

   Synonym: qədim

4. (linguistics, genetics) proto-

   ulu dil ― proto-language

• “ulu” in Obastan.com.

ulu inan

1. bay

• ulu egin

• badia
• ereinotz
• erramu
• zaunka

From Pre-Chamorro *ʔulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

From Lower Chinook ulu, a noun meaning hunger in the Lower Chinook language.

ulu

1. hungry

From Proto-Central Pacific *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

Borrowed from English wool.

• IPA^(key): /ʔúː.lù/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔúː.lɪ̀]

ūlù m (possessed form ūlùn)

1. wool
2. wool thread

• (wool): wul

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu.

ulu

1. growth
2. grove
3. flock

• ulu hōkū

ulu

1. (intransitive) to grow

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *surup (“enter, penetrate”).

ulu

1. (intransitive) to inspire; to be possessed by a god

ulu

1. someone

ulu

1. Latin spelling of ᐅᓗ (olo)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu.

ulu

1. head

From Proto-South Sulawesi *ulu, From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *quluh.

• IPA^(key): [ˈulu]

ulu (Lontara spelling ᨕᨘᨒᨘ)

1. (anatomy) head

ulu

1. Dated spelling of hulu (“upriver; head”).

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.lu/
• Rhymes: -ulu
• Syllabification: u‧lu

ulu m

1. locative/vocative singular of ul

From Proto-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Oceanic *qulu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulu, from Proto-Austronesian *qulu.

ulu

1. (anatomy) head (part of the body)

• Te Pukamuna | Pukapuka Dictionary

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.lu]

ulu

1. (stative) to be slack (of rope, etc.)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Ottoman Turkish اولو‎ (ulu, “great, big, large”), from Common Turkic *ulug.

ulu

1. supreme, great, holy

From ù- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ lù (“to beat”). Literally, “that which is beaten”.

• IPA^(key): /ù.lù/

ùlù

1. (Ekiti, Ijesha) Alternative form of ìlù (“drum, percussion”)

Cognate with Yoruba ìlú

• IPA^(key): /ù.lú/

ùlú

1. (Ekiti, Ijebu, Ijesha, Ikalẹ, Ondo, Ọwọ) city, town, country

   Ọba òun ùjòyè wà núlùú. ― The monarch and the chiefs are in the city. (Ìjẹ̀bú)

• ùloòyìnbó (“The Western world”)