"アイヌ" meaning in Ainu

See アイヌ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ʔájꜜnù] Forms: aynu [romanization], アィヌ [alternative]
Etymology: Proto-Ainu *aynu HL (< *a(n)=inu ?) (“person”, “man (in general)”). Proto-Ainu *aynu HL (“person”). Head templates: {{head|ain|noun|Latin spelling|aynu||{{{3}}}||{{{poss}}}|||||||||||f1sc=Latn|head=|sc=Kana|tr=-}} アイヌ (Latin spelling aynu), {{ain-noun|k|aynu}} アイヌ (Latin spelling aynu)
  1. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kuril, South Kuril) person, human being Tags: Sakhalin
    Sense id: en-アイヌ-ain-noun-jBXCRHqL Categories (other): Hokkaido Ainu, Kuril Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu
  2. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin) (more specifically) Ainu person; the Ainu people Tags: Sakhalin
    Sense id: en-アイヌ-ain-noun-57yfk~ni Categories (other): Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu, Ainu entries with incorrect language header, Ainu terms with redundant script codes, People Disambiguation of Ainu entries with incorrect language header: 11 74 2 11 2 Disambiguation of Ainu terms with redundant script codes: 3 80 2 12 2 Disambiguation of People: 0 49 0 51 0
  3. (Hokkaido, Sakhalin) man (adult male) Tags: Sakhalin
    Sense id: en-アイヌ-ain-noun-WZMJs0xE Categories (other): Hokkaido Ainu, Sakhalin Ainu
  4. comrade
    Sense id: en-アイヌ-ain-noun-PerI4qoh Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Ethnonyms, Hominids, People Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 15 28 10 38 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 28 10 37 10 Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 10 20 7 56 7 Disambiguation of Hominids: 8 6 6 75 6 Disambiguation of People: 0 49 0 51 0
  5. (with possessives) father, husband
    Sense id: en-アイヌ-ain-noun-FvP54xeE
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ウタリ (english: comrade, fellow; Ainu people; senses for and) Derived forms: アイヌイタㇰ (english: Aynu itak, the Ainu language), アイヌフラ (english: human smell), アイヌモシㇼ (english: Aynu mosir, land of humans; the world; Hokkaido as the Ainu homeland), アイヌプリ (english: Ainu traditions and customs), オㇰカイアイヌ (english: a man; North Kuril) Coordinate_terms: ミチ (mici) (english: father), ホク (hoku) (english: husband), シウェンテㇷ゚ (siwentep) (english: woman), メノコ (menoko) (english: woman, girl), マッ (english: woman, wife, mother; mat), マチ (maci) (english: wife), ハポ (hapo) (english: mother), ヘカチ (hekaci) (english: boy)

Alternative forms

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            [
              3,
              9
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              8,
              12
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              4,
              7
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      "word": "アイヌフラ"
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Download raw JSONL data for アイヌ meaning in Ainu (3.9kB)

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  ],
  "section": "Ainu",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "アイヌ",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ainu dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (5ee713e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.