kuru

Etymology
From. Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 庫魯病
 * Esperanto: kuruo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Kuru
 * Irish: kuru
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:

Alternative forms

 * (Hokkaido dialect)
 * (Hokkaido dialect)

Noun

 * 1)  person

Usage notes
This word is similar in usage to Japanese, in the sense that it cannot stand in a sentence as an independent word and is never used without a modifier.

Verb

 * 1) sleep

Etymology
From Proto-Central-Pacific *kuru, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) thunder

Etymology 1
From (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  gorge, gulch, ravine, flume
 * 2) canyon
 * 1) canyon

Etymology 2
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  kuru

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) skin
 * 2) leather

Alternative forms

 * Carakan:

Adjective

 * 1) skinny

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) donkey

Etymology 1
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) breadfruit

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to strike with a fist; to pound or thump

Noun

 * 1) mallet; fragment; hammer-head stone

Noun

 * 1)  water

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)   central nervous system disease among the Fore people

Noun

 * 1) worm, caterpillar

Noun

 * 1) woman

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) big, large
 * 2) great
 * 3) adult
 * 1) adult
 * 1) adult

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) old, senior

Etymology 1
, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) dry
 * 2) emaciated
 * 3) depleted
 * 1) depleted

Etymology
Possibly related to

Verb

 * 1) to be short