arui

Other forms of arui

plural

aruis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arui

What does arui mean?

arui means "wild sheep of northern Africa".

How many syllables are in arui?

arui has 3 syllables: a-ru-i. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for arui?

Close synonyms include aoudad, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep, Ammotragus lervia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arui a common word?

arui is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.