gru

gru

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kistane.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kistane terms

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɾuː]

gru f (definite gruja) (dialectal, Gheg)

1. alternative form of grua

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian grȕj / гру̏ј. Doublet of dhrongo.

gru f (definite gruja)

1. synonym of ngjalë deti (Conger conger)

• FMGJSH (2026), “gru,~ja”
• Lloshi (2010), page 239a: “ngjala e detit” → “gruja”
• Dhora (2008), page 40: “Conger conger” → “gruja, grua”

From grue (“to dread”), from Low German grue, from Middle Low German gruwen, from Proto-Germanic *grūwijaną, perhaps ultimately an imitative derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”),^[1] or instead from *gʰer- (“to rub, stroke, grind”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ɡruː/, [ɡ̊ʁuːˀ]

gru c (singular definite gruen, not used in plural form)

1. horror

• rædsel

• grusom (“cruel”)

gru

1. imperative of grue

Inherited from Old French gru ?, from Frankish *grūt. Cognate with English grout, groats.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁy/

gru m (uncountable)

1. (Louisiana) grits

   Défunte mémère faisait du gru avec le maïs que tu moulais, et alle faisait du bon gru avec ça.

   My late grandmother used to make grits with the corn you would grind up, and she made good grits with that.

• gruau

• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities, 2009, →ISBN, →ISBN

From Latin gruem f or m (“crane”), from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥h₂ú-, from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Cognate with French grue f, Spanish grua f, Portuguese grou m, Romanian grui m.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡru/^*
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: grù

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gru f (invariable)

1. crane (bird)
2. crane (machinery)

• IPA^(key): /ɡrʉː/

gru f (definite singular grua, uncountable)

1. dread, horror

• “gru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ɡry/

gru f

1. crane

gru m inan

1. abbreviation of grudzień or grudnia (“December”)

   Coordinate terms: sty, lut, mar, kwi, maj, cze, lip, sie, wrz, paź, lis

Inherited from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Tarifit yru (“to gather”) and Ghadames ăǵruw (“to gather”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡru/

gru (intensive aorist grru, preterite gri or gra, verbal noun tigri, Tifinagh spelling ⴳⵔⵓ, Arabic spelling ڭرو)

1. to gather, to glean
2. to be gathered
3. to harvest (olives, almonds, walnuts, argan nuts)
4. to nibble, peck (of birds)

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 934