roo

See also: 'roo and ro'o

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Rotokas.

Symbol

roo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Rotokas.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Rotokas terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: rue, roux

Etymology 1

From Middle English roo, ro, from Old English rō, rōw (“quietness, quiet, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *rōō (“quiet, rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to rest; quiet”). Cognate with Scots ro, ruve (“peace, repose”), German Ruhe (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ro (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Icelandic ró (“tranquility, quietness”).

Noun

roo (uncountable)

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) Peace; quietness.
2. (UK dialectal) Rest; stillness.

Derived terms

• roolie
• unruly
• wanrufe

Etymology 2

Apheretic form of kangaroo.

Alternative forms

• 'roo

Noun

roo (plural roos)

1. (Australia, slang) Clipping of kangaroo.

Derived terms

• a roo loose in the top paddock
• roo bar
• rooburger

Anagrams

• Oro, oro-

Galician

Verb

roo

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of roer

Gooniyandi

Noun

roo

1. excrement, faeces, shit

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɺoʔo/

Noun

roo m (masc. plural roobii, fem. rooko, fem. plural roobee) (Note: the form after a determiner is roo)

1. a horn, barb (mpl vowel may rise to ruubii. fem. = a short/stout horn)

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rʲuː/

Pronoun

roo (emphatic roosyn)

1. third-person plural of rish

   to them

   • Cha row eh ny s'lheah er loayrt roo. No sooner had he spoken to them.
   • Ta mee çheughey roo. I side with them.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

roo

1. alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Etymology 2

Noun

roo

1. alternative form of ro (“serenity”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.u/ [ˈho.u]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.u/ [ˈho.u]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.u/ [ˈχo.u]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.u/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.u/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo(w).u/

• Rhymes: -ou
• Hyphenation: ro‧o

Verb

roo

1. first-person singular present indicative of roer

Spanish

Alternative forms

• roigo, royo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroo/ [ˈro.o]
• Rhymes: -oo
• Syllabification: ro‧o

Verb

roo

1. first-person singular present indicative of roer – see Usage notes

Usage notes

The preferred form is roo, but the common alternative forms roigo and royo are also acceptable.

See also

• Quintana Roo

Further reading

• “roer”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española]; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2023, →ISBN

Tetum

Etymology

From *doo, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun, compare Malay daun.

Noun

roo

1. leaf