Aku

  

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Aku

Definition: Aku

Aku

Noun

1. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Aku" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "great", "venerable", "increase".

"Aku" is a common misspelling or typo for: auk, auks.

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Aku

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

AKU

EnglishAga Khan UniversityN/A

Aku

GermanAkkumulatorN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Aku

Synonym: Yoruba (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aku

Non-English Usage: "Aku" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Malay (I).

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Modern Usage: Aku

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape shifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! (Samurai Jack; writing credit: Paul Waite)

And we'd just had dinner at the Stardust Hotel, one of the eight international restaurants -- I believe it was Aku Aku, the Polynesian. (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

Movie/TV Titles

Abashiri Bangaichi: Aku eno Chosen (1967)

Aku no monsho (1964)

Saat aku mencintaimu (1997)

Aku no hana (1997)

Aiju: aku no hana (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Aku

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aku Aku (reference)

  • Aku ingat-- : rasa dan tindak siswa sekolah kolonial di awal merdeka bangsa : memperingati 50 tahun Indonesia merdeka (reference)

  • Aku Ingin Jadi Presiden (reference)

  • Journal of Various Visits to the Kingdoms of Ashanti, Aku and Dahomi in Western Africa (reference)

  • Panggil Aku, Pheng Hwa (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Aku

"Aku" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "great", "venerable", "increase".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Aku."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AugustusMaleAncient RomanN/A
AkuMaleFinnishAukusti
AukustiMaleFinnishAugustus
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aku

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aku

52

aku cintakan mu

3

aku ankka

16

aku zen

3

aku soku zan

15

aku huumori

3

aku aku

11

aku ishaya mark

3

aku blues untuk

9

aku ankan sivut

3

aku tenshi

9

aku best tiki western

3

aku edu.tr

8

aku dirogol

2

aku edu tr

7

aku punktet.dk

2

aku dan sesuatu

6

94 aku

2

aku cinta padamu

6

aku kawan

2

aku fansubs

4

aku blues dalam hidup

2

best western aku tiki inn

4

aku tiki

2

aku aku worcester

4

aku boot

2

aku jack samurai

4

aku boot

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Aku

Derivations

Words ending with "Aku": bunraku, gagaku, nunchaku. (additional references)

Words containing "Aku": breakup, breakups, bunrakus, gagakus, hibakusha, karakul, karakuls, makuta, nunchakus, oakum, oakums. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Aku

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: auk.

Words within the letters "a-k-u"

-1 letter: ka.

 Words containing the letters "a-k-u"
 

+1 letter: auks, jauk, kagu, kuna, skua, wauk.

 

+2 letters: amuck, ankus, baulk, caulk, dumka, haiku, jauks, kagus, kaput, kauri, kaury, knaur, kraut, kulak, kurta, oakum, pucka, pukka, punka, quack, quake, quaky, quark, skuas, taluk, ukase, umiak, wauks.

 

+3 letters: adzuki, amucks, ankush, auklet, backup, baulks, baulky, buckra, caulks, chabuk, chukar, chukka, eureka, funkia, gagaku, haikus, jauked, judoka, kabuki, kahuna, kalium, kaputt, kauris, kiaugh, knaurs, koruna, krauts, kulaki, kulaks, kurgan, kurtas, kuvasz, likuta, makeup, makuta, mamluk, markup, oakums, outask, padauk, padouk, punkah, punkas, quacks, quaked, quaker, quakes, quarks, quokka, rumaki, saluki, squawk, squeak, sukkah, takeup, taluka, taluks, tanuki, ukases, umiack, umiaks, unakin, uncake, unmake, unmask, unpack, untack, uptake, walkup, wauked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aku


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6B 75

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101011 01110101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#107 &#117

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006B 0075

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357787

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Names: Derived from
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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