curi

See also: curí, ĉuri, čúṛi, çuri, and Çuri

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈku.ɾi]
  • Audio (Valencia):(file)

Etymology 1

Chemical element
Cm
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Noun

curi m (uncountable)

  1. curium

Etymology 2

Verb

curi

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽìː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [t͡ʃúː.ɽìː]

Noun

cūrī̀ m (possessed form cūrìn)

  1. ball of food
  2. verbal noun of cura

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay curi, from Hindi चोरी (corī, thief), from Sanskrit चोर (cora, thief, robber) with the root चुर् (cur, to steal, rob). Cognate of Javanese ꦕꦺꦴꦫꦃ (corah, thief, bandit; bad person), Old Javanese corah, cora (thief, robber).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuri/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ri]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Syllabification: cu‧ri

Verb

curi

  1. (imperative, colloquial) imperative colloquial of mencuri (to steal)

Conjugation

Conjugation of curi (meng-, transitive)
root curi
active passive basic
imperative
emphatic
jussive
reflective1 ordinary
ordinary
nominative mencuri tercuri dicuri curi curilah
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2 mencurikan dicurikan curikan curikanlah
causative
nominative
accusative / dative / locative
perfective causative / applicative2

1 There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
2 The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Derived terms

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ri/
  • Rhymes: -uri
  • Hyphenation: cù‧ri

Verb

curi

  1. inflection of curare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first-person singular second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Malay

Etymology

From Hindi चुराना (curānā). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃuri/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ri]
  • Rhymes: -uri, -i
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ri

Verb

curi (Jawi spelling چوري)

  1. (transitive) to steal
    1. to take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it
    2. to appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement

Derived terms

Descendants

  • > Indonesian: curi (inherited)

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kurʲ]
  • Rhymes: -i

Verb

curi

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cura (to clean)

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

curi (Cyrillic spelling цури)

  1. dative/locative singular of cura

Anagrams

Taroko

Noun

curi

  1. penis

Vietnamese

Chemical element
Cm
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Next: beckeli (Bk)

Etymology

Ultimately from New Latin curium, with the suffix -um removed as with most chemical elements.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ku˧˧ ɹi˧˧] ~ [ku˧˧ zi˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [kʊw˧˧ ɹɪj˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [kʊw˧˧ ɹɪj˧˧]
  • Phonetic spelling: cu Ri

Noun

curi

  1. curium

Zazaki

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒyˈre/
  • Hyphenation: cu‧re

Noun

curi (f)

  1. (chiefly offensive) dwarf (small person)
  2. dwarf (something much smaller than the usual of its sort)