cou

cou

1. third-person singular present indicative form of coure
2. second-person singular imperative form of coure

From Latin collum. Doublet of col.

• Cognate with Italian collo, Portuguese colo, Spanish cuello

• IPA^(key): /ku/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Homophones: coup, coups, cous, coût, coûts

cou m (plural cous)

1. neck

• collet
• collier

• “cou” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

cou

1. (Classical K'iche') strong

• couil
• couirizah
• couiric
• couizah

cou

1. Nonstandard spelling of cǒu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of còu.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

• kow, cow, cu, ku, kowe, cowe

From Old English cū, in turn from Proto-Germanic *kūz; this comes from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Cognates include Middle Dutch koe, Middle French bœuf and Persian گاو‎ (gâv).

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

cou (plural kyne or kie)

1. A cow (female bovine)

• English: cow
  • Sranan Tongo: kaw
  • Tok Pisin: kau
  • → Abenaki: kaoz (from "cows")
  • → Maori: kau
• Scots: coo, coe, cou

cou

1. Alternative form of kə (“water”)

• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕou˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cou¹
• Hyphenation: cou

From Chinese 秋 (qiū).

cou (old orthography cou)

1. autumn

From Chinese 週／周 (zhōu).

cou (old orthography cou)

1. week

• singhgiz
• lijbai

From Chinese 抽 (chōu).

cou (old orthography cou)

1. to draw (lots)