yuyu

Borrowed from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu (“crab”). Compare to Javanese ꦪꦸꦪꦸ (yuyu).

• IPA^(key): /juju/

yuyu (Balinese script ᬬᬸᬬᬸ)

1. crab

• “yuyu” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Borrowed from Javanese yuyu, from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayuyu (“coconut crab”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈjuju/ [ˈju.ju]
• Rhymes: -uju
• Syllabification: yu‧yu

yuyu (plural yuyu-yuyu)

1. a crab, in general or specifically of the freshwater superfamily Gecarcinucoidea

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qayuyu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “yuyu” 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.

yuyu

1. romanization of ꦪꦸꦪꦸ

From Javanese yuyu, from Old Javanese yuyu, hayuyu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qayuyu (“coconut crab”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuju/ [ˈju.ju]
• Rhymes: -uju
• Hyphenation: yu‧yu

yuyu (plural yuyu-yuyu)

1. (Jakarta) a freshwater crab, in Gecarcinidae
2. (Jakarta, in general) a crab

• “yuyu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /juju/

yuyu

1. crab

• hayuyu

• karkaṭa

• Javanese: ꦪꦸꦪꦸ (yuyu)
• → Balinese: ᬬᬸᬬᬸ (yuyu)

• Rhymes: -uʝu
• Syllabification: yu‧yu

yuyu m (uncountable)

1. (informal, childish) the creeps, the heeby-jeebies

• “yuyu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “yuyu”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

yuyu

1. light rain

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 96