Noun
iru (uncountable)
A West African condiment made from fermented locust beans.
IRU (plural IRUs)
(aerospace) Initialism of inertial reference unit, a device which uses the forces applied to a spacecraft or aircraft in order to track its orientation.
Coordinate terms: ADIRU, INS
The optical fibre network assets of Zesco have, in the IRU Agreement, been expropriated (with no consideration whatsoever) and handed over to a company that was soon to pass into a majority private shareholding. Source: Internet
Japanese also has two verbs corresponding to English "to be": aru and iru. Source: Internet
Two additional common verbs are used to indicate existence ("there is") or, in some contexts, property: aru (negative nai) and iru (negative inai), for inanimate and animate things, respectively. Source: Internet
For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. Source: Internet