ruru
/ˈɹuːɹuː/noun
ruru is a noun meaning “The morepork” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-R-U, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ruru is rurus.
What does ruru mean?
noun
- 1
The morepork.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ruru?
- UK /ˈɹuːɹuː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ruru.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ruru
- rurus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ruru?
Ruru appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ruru come from?
Borrowed from Māori ruru. First use in English appears c. 1842.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).