rou

• IPA^(key): /rœu/

From Dutch rauw

rou (attributive roue, comparative rouer, superlative rouste)

1. raw

From Dutch rouwen

rou (present rou, present participle rouende, past participle gerou)

1. to mourn, grieve

From French roue

rou

1. wheel

rou

1. Nonstandard spelling of róu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of rǒu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of ròu.

• 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.

rou

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

rou

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

• IPA^(key): /row/

rou

1. reflected light of the moon

• berorou (“color of the twilight”)
• merorou

• rou in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• rou in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• rou in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 294.