nu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nu"

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Ancient Greek alphabet

← mu		→ xi
Ν ν Ancient Greek: νῦ
Wikipedia article on nu

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek νῦ (nû), name for the letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /njuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nu/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

nu (countable and uncountable, plural nus)

1. The letter of the Greek alphabet Ν (N) and ν (n).
2. A measure of constringence in lenses or prisms.

Derived terms

• ephelcystic nu
• movable nu
• nu movable

Translations

name for the letter of the Greek alphabet: Ν and ν

Arabic: نُو m (nū) Asturian: ni (ast) f Azerbaijani: nü Catalan: ni (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 紐 / 纽 (zh) (niǔ) Czech: ný n Danish: ny (da) n Dutch: nu (nl) m or f Esperanto: nuo (eo) Finnish: nyy (fi) French: nu (fr) m Galician: ni (gl) m German: Ny (de) n Greek: νι (el) n (ni) Ancient: νῦ n (nû) Hungarian: nű (hu) Japanese: ニュー (ja) (nyū), ニ (ja) (ni) Korean: 뉴 (ko) (nyu) Malay: nu (ms) Persian: نو (fa) (nu) Polish: ni (pl) n, ny (pl) n Portuguese: ni (pt) m Russian: ню (ru) n (nju), ни (ru) n (ni) (modern Greek only) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ни Latin: ni (sh) Spanish: ni (es) f Thai: นิว (niu)

See also

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Yiddish נו (nu). Doublet of now.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /nu/

Interjection

nu

1. (Jewish) An exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt, etc.
2. (Jewish) Well? (Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.)

Translations

exclamation of surprise, emphasis, doubt etc.

Russian: ну (ru) (nu) Yiddish: נו (nu)

Etymology 3

Phonetic respelling of new.

Adjective

nu (comparative more nu, superlative most nu)

1. (slang spelling) new

Derived terms

• nu-disco
• nu gaze
• nu-house
• nu jazz
• nu-male
• nu metal
• nu skool
• NuTrek
• NuWho

See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing the word "nu"

• chu-ko-nu
• nu body
• sheng nu

Anagrams

• 'un, -un-, U.N., UN, Un, un, un-

Ainu

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu/

Verb

nu (Kana spelling ヌ)

1. (transitive) to hear
2. (transitive) to sense (a smell)
3. (possibly obsolete, transitive, + otta) to ask, enquire

Derived terms

• inu (“to listen”)

Äiwoo

Verb

nu

1. to drink

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Ajië

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *niuʀ, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *niuʀ.

Noun

nu

1. coconut