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Meaning 1
A language spoken in Kaduna State of Nigeria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
ayu
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɑːjuː/
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noun
Meaning 2
A sweetfish, an amphidromous game fish of East Asia of species Plecoglossus altivelis, prized for its sweet-tasting flesh and subject to extensive aquaculture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
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History
Etymology
From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Cantonese: 香魚 /香鱼 — amphidromous fish
- Hakka Chinese: 香魚 /香鱼 (hiông-ǹg) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese: 芳魚 /芳鱼 (phang-hî) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese: 溪鰮 /溪鳁 (khoe-un, khe-un) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese: 𫙮魚 /𫙮鱼 (kia̍t-hî, kia̍t-hû) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese: 𫙮 (kia̍t) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese: 國姓魚 /国姓鱼 (kok-sèng-hî, kok-sèng-hû) — amphidromous fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 香魚 /香鱼 (xiāngyú) — amphidromous fish
- Czech: aju — amphidromous fish
- Estonian: aiu — amphidromous fish
- Finnish: aju — amphidromous fish
- Korean: 은어 (euneo) — amphidromous fish
- Vietnamese: cá thơm — amphidromous fish
- Vietnamese: cá hương — amphidromous fish