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iru

iru noun: a West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.

Noun (1)

iru (uncountable)

  1. A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.

Noun (2) capitalized: IRU

IRU (plural IRUs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of inertial reference unit.

Forms of iru

pluralIRUs

Origin of iru

Borrowed from Yoruba irú.

Questions about iru

What does iru mean?
Iru means a West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
What part of speech is iru?
Iru is a noun.
What is the plural of iru?
The plural of iru is IRUs.

Words near iru in the dictionary

  1. irtal
  2. Irthlingborough
  3. Irtysh
  4. irtyshite
  5. irtyshites
  6. iru
  7. Irudayaraj
  8. Irukandji
  9. Irukandji syndrome
  10. Irukandjis
  11. irul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iru (page history and authors); IRU (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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