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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
- Abbreviation of bushel (a unit of weight or dry measure).
- Clipping of bureau.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Anagrams
[edit]Acehnese
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Äiwoo
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Amanab
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- John R. Roberts, Namia and Amanab Grammar Essentials (1992, SIL)
Amasi
[edit]Noun
[edit]bú
- dog (canine)
References
[edit]- Africana Marburgensia (1973)
Azerbaijani
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”)[1] Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆 (b¹u /bu/, “this”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Determiner
[edit]bu
- this, these
- Bu uşaqlar məktəbə gedirlər. ― These kids are going to school.
- Mən bu uşağın atası deyiləm. ― I am not the father of this child.
Usage notes
[edit]- When used as a determiner modifying nouns, bu is not declined for case and number, as opposed to when it is used as a pronoun (see below).
Pronoun
[edit]bu
- this
- Bunu bura kim gətirib? ― Who brought this here?.
- Ya bunlarla əməkdaşlıq etmək lazımdır, ya onlarla. Hamısı ilə yox.
- We should collaborate either with these or with those. Not with all.
- he, she
See also
[edit]- o (“that”)
References
[edit]- ^ . Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bu(-n)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Bukawa
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- William Eckermann, A Descriptive Grammar of the Bukawa Language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea (2007)
Crimean Tatar
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]bu
Dalmatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin bōs, bovem.
Noun
[edit]bu m (plural buč)
Danish
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
- imperative of bue
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Participle
[edit]bu (feminine bue, masculine plural bus, feminine plural bues)
- past participle of boire
- J'ai bu deux verres de vin. - I have drunk two glasses of wine.
- As-tu bu? - Have you been drinking?
Gresi
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111
Guinea-Bissau Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese vós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.
Pronoun
[edit]bu
- you (second person singular).
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu (first-person possessive buku, second-person possessive bumu, third-person possessive bunya)
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu m (invariable)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu m (invariable)
- a tenth (decimal) (分)
Jabem
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Further reading
[edit]- Otto Dempwolff's Grammar of the Jabêm Language in New Guinea (published 2005)
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]bu
Kapauri
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 115
Kemtuik
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
Malay
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
See also
[edit]Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic أَبُو (ʔabū), construct state of أَب (ʔab, “father”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu m (plural abwa or but, feminine omm)
Usage notes
[edit]- The word had the same syntactic constraints as ħu (“brother”), which compare.
- As in Arabic, the word was often used figuratively to associate a person with some object or activity. Therefore, in the remaining compounds bu typically means “the one with...”, “the one that is...”, “the one who always...”, rather than literally “father”.
Derived terms
[edit]Mandarin
[edit]Romanization
[edit]bu
- Nonstandard spelling of bū.
- Nonstandard spelling of bú.
- Nonstandard spelling of bǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of bù.
Usage notes
[edit]- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Mekwei
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111
Mlap
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111
Nga La
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓuu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pru(w).
Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007
Nias
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhək, from Proto-Austronesian *bukəS.
Noun
[edit]bu (mutated form mbu)
References
[edit]- Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.
Nimboran
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 110
Norman
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
- past participle of baithe
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse búa (“to prepare, finish, make preparations, equip”), from Proto-Germanic *būaną. Cognate with Old English būan, English buwa, Old Saxon būan and Old High German būan (whence German bauen).
Verb
[edit]bu (present tense bur, past tense budde, past participle butt/budd, passive infinitive buast, present participle buande, imperative bu)
- (intransitive) to live (have permanent residence), stay
- (intransitive) to be, to dwell, to be in
- (transitive) to prepare
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse bú n, from Proto-Germanic *būą n (“building, dwelling”).
Noun
[edit]bu n (definite singular buet, indefinite plural bu, definite plural bua)
- an estate, belongings
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Old Norse búð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō. Akin to English booth.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu f (definite singular bua, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bu
- boo! Used to indicate derision or disapproval.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “bu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu oblique singular, m (oblique plural bus, nominative singular bus, nominative plural bu)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bu)
Old English
[edit]Determiner
[edit]bū
Pa
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
- (woman's) breast
References
[edit]- transnewguinea.org, citing McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970), Shaw (1973) and Shaw (1986)
- Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)
Pangutaran Sama
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Pnar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Khasian *buː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔbuuʔ; related to ymbu (“breast”). Cognate with Khmer បៅ (baw), Old Mon 'bow (whence modern Mon မဴ), Vietnamese bú.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bu
- an onomatopoeic interjection imitating the sound of crying, usually written with two or more 'u's
Further reading
[edit]- bu in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Interjection
[edit]bu!
- boo (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)
Romagnol
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
- past participle of avér (“to have”)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bu
Rukai
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
- bow (weapon for shooting arrows)
Salar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *bu(-n).
Noun
[edit]bu (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])
References
[edit]Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “bu”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
- past/conditional of is
Usage notes
[edit]- Before a word beginning with a vowel or fh, the form b' is used.
References
[edit]- Colin Mark (2003) “bu”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
Sentani
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- H. K. J. Cowan, Grammar of the Sentani Language (1965, ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu (Cyrillic spelling бу)
Spanish
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bu
- boo!
Further reading
[edit]- “bu”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]bu
- boo; a loud exclamation intended to scare someone, usually a child.
- Bu! Blev du rädd?
- Boo! Were you scared?
- boo; an exclamation used to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.
Derived terms
[edit]- bua
- säga varken bu eller bä (“say neither this nor that (not express an opinion)”)
References
[edit]- bu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- bu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- bu in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Tabla
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Kenneth Gregerson, Margaret Hartzler, Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Tabla-Sentani Phonology, Oceanic Linguistics, volume 26, numéro 1/2, 1987, pages 1-29, page 7
Talysh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Tarao
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Derived terms
[edit]- bular (“famine”)
References
[edit]- Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao)
Tat
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Tedim Chin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓuu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pru(w).
Noun
[edit]bu
References
[edit]- Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish بو (bu, “this”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bu, “this”), from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆 (b¹u /bu/, “this”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]bu
- this
- Bu bir ev. ― This is a house.
- Bunu sevmedim. ― I did not like this.
- Bunlar benim kitaplarım. ― These are my books.
- Bu kitaplar benim. ― These books are mine.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Upper Sorbian
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
Uzbek
[edit]Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | бу |
Latin | |
Perso-Arabic |
Pronoun
[edit]bu (plural bular)
- this (demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing in the immediate vicinity of the speaker)
- Antonym: u
Determiner
[edit]bu
- this
- Antonym: u
- Bu sahifada hozircha hech qanday matn yoʻq.
- There is currently no text in this page. / This page currently has no text.
Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to assemble, to gather into one place
Derived terms
[edit]Wakhi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *dvu, related to Tajik ду (du).
Numeral
[edit]bu
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /bɨː/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /biː/
Verb
[edit]bu
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bu | fu | mu | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Woi
[edit]Noun
[edit]bu
Zou
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bu
- (transitive) to hide
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bú
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bù
References
[edit]- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62
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