uni

Clipping of university.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.ni/

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• Rhymes: -uːni

uni (plural unis)

1. (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) University.

   I'm going to uni after I leave school.

   Turn left when you reach the uni.

Canadian usage is limited to prepositional phrases like to uni or at uni and cannot be used as a countable noun (as in *the uni or *unis).

Borrowed from Japanese 雲丹.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/
• Rhymes: -uːni

uni (uncountable)

1. Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
   • 2013 July 16, Ken Belson, “In Japan, Searching for Prized Sea Urchins”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The ikura popped in my mouth, the hotate was buttery soft and the uni was creamy and sweet without a seafood aftertaste, the kind of freshness I was hoping we would encounter when we left Tokyo.

• NUI, Niu

• uri — Tosk
• uja — Gheg

From Proto-Albanian *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”).^[1] Cognate to English wish, Latin venia (“indulgence, kindness”).

uni f (definite unia)

1. hunger

• oreks

uni

1. water

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) ?
• native-languages.org

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

From French uni.

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uni (not comparable)

1. plain, monocoloured

From Proto-Finnic *uni, from Proto-Finno-Permic *une, cognate to Finnish uni, Votic uni, Ludian uńi, and Erzya он (on, “dream”).

uni (genitive une, partitive und)

1. sleep

   Mul ei tule und. ― I can't sleep. (literally, “Sleep is not coming on me.”)

2. dream

   Ma nägin unes suurt põtra. ― I saw a big elk in my dream.

 

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From Proto-Finnic *uni, from Proto-Finno-Permic *une. Cognates include Erzya он (on), Western Mari ом (om).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation^(key): uni

uni

1. sleep (state of reduced consciousness)

   Synonym: unitila

   saada unen päästä kiinni ― can get sleep (literally, “to be able to catch sleep”)

   saada unta ― to get sleep, can get sleep

   syvässä unessa ― sound asleep

   En saanut unen päästä kiinni.

   I could not get sleep.

   Etkö saa unta?

   Are you having trouble sleeping? / Are you having trouble falling asleep?

2. dream (imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping; neutral term, not implied positive)

   Synonym: unennäkö

   nähdä unta ― to have a dream

   unien selittäminen / unista ennustaminen ― oneiromancy

• painajainen

• “uni”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

• uin

• IPA^(key): /y.ni/

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• Rhymes: -i

uni (feminine unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. past participle of unir

uni (feminine unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. united

• Organisation des Nations Unies
• unis comme les doigts de la main

Clipping of uniforme

uni (feminine unie, masculine plural unis, feminine plural unies)

1. having only one color, feature, etc.

Clipping of université. Compare standard French univ.

uni f (plural unis)

1. (Switzerland, informal) university

   Synonyms: univ, fac

• “uni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• nui

18th century, from French uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏni/, /ˈyːni/, (unusual) /yˈniː/

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uni (indeclinable)

1. (of clothes, fabrics, chiefly predicative) unicolour, single-colour

   Synonym: einfarbig

uni

1. sound; noise; voice

From Dutch unie, from French union, from Latin ūniō f.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊni]
• Hyphenation: uni

uni

1. union,
   1. the act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
   2. that which is united; something formed by a combination of parts or members.

      Uni Eropa ― European Union

      Uni Soviet ― Soviet Union

      Synonyms: perserikatan, persatuan, ikatan

• “uni” 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.

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognate with Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈuni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

   paha uni ― bad dream

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 623

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: ù‧ni

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

uni

1. masculine plural of uno

uni m pl

1. plural of uno

Clipping of università.

uni f (invariable)

1. (informal) university

• uni in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• uni in Dizionario di Italiano online - La Repubblica
• uni in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• uni in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• uni in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• uni in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• uni in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• uni in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

uni

1. Rōmaji transcription of うに
2. Rōmaji transcription of ウニ

uni

1. Romanization of ꦲꦸꦤꦶ

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognates include Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʲi/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni (genitive unen, partitive unta or unda)

1. sleep
2. dream

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “сон”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN
• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “un'i”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

uni (invariable)

1. every

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.niː/, [ˈuːniː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/, [ˈuːni]

ūnī

1. inflection of ūnus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. dative masculine/feminine/neuter singular

In older versions of Latin, this was used as the genitive singular for the masculine and neuter genders, with ūnō (currently exclusive to the Ablative) being used for the dative case and the dative singular in the feminine gender being ūnae (currently exclusive to the nominative and vocative plurals).

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognates include Finnish uni and Estonian uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʲi/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni
• Rhymes: -unʲi

uni (genitive unen, partitive undu)

1. sleep
2. dream

3=n

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “uni”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

From Proto-Arawak *hunia.

uni

1. rain

• de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 255

From Proto-Finnic *uni. Cognates include Finnish uni and Veps uni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunʲi/
• Rhymes: -unʲi
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. dream

• Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 465
• M. Pahomov (2022) “uni”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[4], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 181

• IPA^(key): /uni/

From (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buñi. Cognate Malay bunyi.

uni

1. sound, voice

   Synonyms: ābhā, dhwani, śabda, swabawa, swara, wacana, wuni

2. content

• wuni

• Javanese: ꦲꦸꦤꦶ (uni)

uni

1. Alternative spelling of ṅūni, ṅūnin (“before”)

uni

1. Alternative spelling of wuni (“secret”)

• "uni" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

uni

1. water

• Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology

uni

1. water
2. river

• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN
• Lińguas arawak da Amazônia setentrional (2001), page 570 (úuni)

uni

1. inflection of unir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Inherited from Latin ūnīre,^[1] present active infinitive of ūniō.

• IPA^(key): /uˈni/

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a uni (third-person singular present unește, past participle unit) 4th conj.

1. to unite, merge, join

   Antonym: dezuni

• unire

• unic
• un, unu

• IPA^(key): /ˈuni/ [ˈu.ni]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Syllabification: u‧ni

uni f (plural unis)

1. Clipping of universidad (“university”); uni

• úuni, húuni

• IPA^(key): /uːni/

uni

1. water
2. waterway, river; body of water, lake; anything watery

• The precise meaning of the word is clarified by using classifiers.

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN
• Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance (2006, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.ni/

uni

1. (transitive) alternative form of wuni (“to watch”)

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From Proto-Finnic *uni.

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “сон”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From Proto-Finnic *uni.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈuni/, [ˈunʲi]
• Rhymes: -uni
• Hyphenation: u‧ni

uni

1. sleep
2. dream

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “uni”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞ni/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈiːni/, /ˈɪni/

uni

1. second-person singular present/future of uno

Cognate with Ternate au (“blood”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.n̪i/

uni

1. blood

• wuni

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[6], Pacific linguistics
• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[7], Pacific linguistics