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Danu.

An ethnic group of Myanmar.

4 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. An ethnic group of Myanmar.

    plural · plural-only
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Burmese ဓနု (dha.nu.).

name
  1. The language spoken by the Danu people, considered by the Burmese government to be a dialect of the Intha-Danu language.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Burmese ဓနု (dha.nu.).

name
  1. A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.

    Irish
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand). In particular, Danann is attested in the term Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history). The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").

name
  1. A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.

    Hinduism
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit दनु (danu).

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