wudu

• wudu', wudhu, wuzu, woodoo

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwuːduː/, /ˈwʊduː/

wudu (uncountable)

1. (Islam) form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
2. (Islam) the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

• abdest

• ghusl
• wazukhana

wudu

1. to fall

Inherited from Malay [Term?] (Standard Malay wuduk), from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/
• Rhymes: -du
• Hyphenation: wu‧du

wudu (plural wudu-wudu, first-person possessive wuduku, second-person possessive wudumu, third-person possessive wudunya)

1. (Islam) wudu:
   1. form of ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer
   2. the state of purity that is achieved by this washing

The Standard Malay form in Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore is wuduk.

• “wudu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• widu, wiodu, wudo
• ᚹᚢᛞᚢ (wudu) — Franks Casket

Dissimilated from earlier widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“tree, beam”).

Cognate with Old Saxon widu, Old High German witu, Old Norse viðr. The Indo-European root is also the source of Old Irish fid, Welsh gwŷdd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.du/

wudu m

1. wood
2. forest, woods
3. tree

• (wood): holt
• (forest): holt, weald
• (tree): trēow, bēam

• wuduweard (“forester”)

• Middle English: wude, wode
  • English: wood
  • Scots: wude, wuid

• triewen (“wooden”)

Borrowed from English voodoo, from Louisiana Creole voudou, from Haitian Creole vodou, from a West African language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvu.du/

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• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative spelling of voodoo

• wudu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈwudu/ [ˈwu.dʊ]
• Rhymes: -udu
• Syllabification: wu‧du

wudu (Baybayin spelling ᜏᜓᜇᜓ) (Islam)

1. wudu

• IPA^(key): /ˈwu.d̪u/

wudu

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of udu (“to blow”)

wudu

1. Alternative form of udu (“wind”)

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics