tutu

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from , playful reduplication of.

Noun

 * 1) A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.
 * The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: tutu
 * Catalan: tutú
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 芭蕾舞裙
 * Danish: strutteskørt
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: tútú
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: チュチュ
 * Korean: 튀튀
 * Maltese: tutu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: strutteskjørt
 * Nynorsk: strutteskjørt
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: váy xoè

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of certain members of genus  of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand, including  and, used by the Maori to make a sweetener, but toxic when not properly prepared.

Etymology 3
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to fiddle or mess around with something.

Noun

 * 1) pipe, tube

Verb

 * 1) to shower

Noun

 * 1) bird

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) tutu garment

Etymology
Alteration of, which is itself a reduplicated form of.

Noun

 * 1)  poop

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) truth

Adjective

 * 1) true

Noun

 * 1)  ballet skirt
 * 2)  money
 * 3) * 1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)
 * "pt"

- Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se? Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

Verb

 * 1) burn

Etymology
.

Alternative forms

 * xoto

Noun

 * 1) water

Etymology
. Probably imitative.

Noun

 * 1) horn
 * 2) horn
 * 3) horn

Verb

 * 1)  to pound
 * 2)  to mash
 * 3)  to punch (with one's fist)

Noun

 * 1)  breast

Noun

 * 1)  breast

Noun

 * 1)  pupil

Etymology
From a partial reduplication of. Compare with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Proposed to be derived from, ultimately from.

Verb
or


 * 1) to be cold or cool
 * 2) to be moist; to be wet
 * 1) to be moist; to be wet

Adjective

 * 1) cold, cool, raw
 * 2) wet,  moist

Usage notes

 * Akinkugbe explains that the form with a mid-tone "u" is said to represent a "verbal form," while the one with the high tone "ú" represent an adjectival form. Thus the noun forms with the prefix ò- are nominalized forms of the verb meaning or the adjectival meaning, but are used synonymously.

Etymology 1
From, from a language, from.

Noun

 * 1) paper
 * 2) document
 * 3) book

Verb

 * 1)  whistle

Adjective

 * 1) together

Derived terms

 * stutu