FromProto-Cushitic. Cognates includeIraqwatén,Oromonuyi,Sahonanu,Sidamoninke andSomaliannaga.
- IPA(key): /naˈnu/ [nʌˈnʊ]
- Hyphenation:na‧nu
nanú
- 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:Diggahnanu Ni Rabbow koo inkittosnaah Qibaada dibuk koo caglisna,nanu ni-caagiidah inkih cato koo esserra.- Our God, with strengthwe 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”, inAn 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,page38
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015),L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
FromLatinnānus.
- IPA(key): /ˈnanu/[ˈna.nu]
- Rhymes:-anu
- Syllabification:na‧nu
nanu m sg (feminine singularnana,masculine pluralnanos,feminine pluralnanes)
- dwarf
Borrowed fromGerman Low Germanna(“well”) +nu(“now”).[1]
nanu
- (chiefly Northern Germany)An expression ofwonderment orconfusion.
2015 July 6, “Starts trotz Nachtflugverbot”, inFrankfurter 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
- 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
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*anu, fromProto-Austronesian*(na-)nu.
nánu
- (interrogative)what
nanu
- water
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
Free variation ofranu, see there for more details.
nanu
- mixed,jumbled
- confusing
- incoherent,inarticulate,unintelligible
- contaminated
nanu (passivenanua)
- to express disastifaction, tomumble ormurmur
nanu
- discontent,dissatisfaction
- Williams, Herbert William (1917), “nanu”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, page254
- “nanu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
nanu
- attributive ofnanus
nanu
- water
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
nanu
- tosing
