ui

See also: UI, uí, Uí, ùi...kàu..., ùi...khí, ủi, uʻi, .ui, .u'i, and -ui

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch ui.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /œj/, [ʊ̟i̯]

Noun

ui (plural uie, diminutive uitjie)

  1. onion
    Synonym: uintjie

Dutch

Etymology

From a reinterpretation as a plural of Middle Dutch uyen, from Old French oignon (whence also Southern Dutch ajuin), from Latin ūniō.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /œy̯/
  • (Belgium)
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  • Hyphenation: ui
  • Rhymes: -œy̯

Noun

ui m (plural uien, diminutive uitje n)

  1. onion
  2. (informal) Nickname for someone from Rijnsburg.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ui
  • Hyphenation: ui
  • IPA(key): /ˈui̯/, [ˈui̯]

Verb

ui

  1. Third-person singular indicative present form of uida., to swim
  2. Third-person singular indicative past form of uida., (s)he swam

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ui
  • IPA(key): /ˈui̯ˣ/, [ˈui̯(ʔ)]

Verb

ui

  1. Indicative present connegative form of uida.
  2. Second-person singular imperative present form of uida.
  3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of uida.

Greenlandic

Noun

ui (plural uit)

  1. husband

Declension
Declension of ui
singular plural
absolutive ui uit
ergative uip uit
allative uimut uinut
ablative uimit uiniit
prosecutive uikkut uitigut
locative uimi uini
instrumental uimik uinik
equative uisut uisut

Hungarian

Etymology

An onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈuʲi]
  • Hyphenation: ui

Interjection

ui

  1. oink (representing the sound made by a piglet)

Derived terms
  • uizik

See also

Japanese

Romanization

ui

  1. Rōmaji transcription of うい

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of ui – see 威 (“pomp; power; etc.”).
(This character, ui, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 威.)

Portuguese

Interjection

ui!

  1. used to comment on a close call

Pumé

Alternative forms

Noun

ui

  1. water

References
  • Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 234
  • Anuario (1964), volume 1, page 340: en yaruro ui 'agua'

Sinacantán

Noun

ui

  1. water

References
  • Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

Tarao

Noun

ui

  1. Alternative spelling of uy (dog).

References
  • 2001, Encyclopaedia of northeast India, volume 3 →ISBN

Wauja

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈu.wi/

Noun

ui

  1. snake, serpent
    Punupa ui outsa!
    Look out for the snake!

References
  • E. Ireland field notes. Needs to be checked by native speaker.
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