Hu
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "hu"
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Chinese 胡 (hú). Doublet of Wu. For less common variants, see Hu.
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
Translations[edit]
Chinese surname
Etymology 2[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
- (historical) Any of several peoples of China, for example the Tatars of northwestern China, whom the Chinese considered barbarians.
Etymology 3[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
- The god of the creation word in Egyptian mythology.
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Etymology 4[edit]
From Arabic هُو (hū), from the town's ancient name, Egyptian ḥwt-sḫm.
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
- A town in Egypt, located on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt.
- 1900, University of Oxford, Oxford University Gazette, page 699:
- [...] portion of a dagger-blade(?) of flint, finely-worked and delicately serrated, prehistoric, Hu, Egypt; pottery table of offerings to the dead, Diospolis Parva. The following of the prehistoric period, Egypt: small curved flint knife, worked along one […]
- 2013 November 11, Linda Manzanilla, Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 84:
- The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, Egypt Exploration Fund
Etymology 5[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A name for God in the Eckankar new religious movement.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A chant consisting of many people singing "Hu" together.
Quotations[edit]
- 2001 03, James R. Lewis, The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 297:
- The ECK can be experienced through chanting the word "HU," a special name for God in ECKANKAR. Chanting HU with an open heart to God's love is a central spiritual practice of ECKANKAR. It is alleged to help lift one to spiritual self-realization, and ultimately God-realization.
- 2015 October 15, Harold Klemp, A Cosmic Sea of Words: The ECKANKAR Lexicon, ECKANKAR, →ISBN:
- HU, Law of. The first law of the physical universe. Spirit is the all-penetrating power which is the forming power of the universes of HU, the Voice of HU (God). See also laws of the physical universe. / HU, A Year of. The fifth of the Spiritual Years of ECK. HU is the most ancient name for God, not God Itself.
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Walloon[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Hu
- Huy (a municipality of Belgium)
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