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Bu

Bu

See also: bu

English

Noun

Bu

  1. (chemistry) Abbreviation of butyl.

Indonesian

Etymology

Contraction of Ibu.

Noun

Bu

  1. (as a title) Mrs, Ms, madam
  2. (as a term of address) Mum

Pennsylvania German

Noun

Bu m

  1. Alternative form of Buh

bu

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bu"

English

Abbreviation

bu

  1. bushel, a unit of weight or dry measure

Anagrams

Acehnese

Noun

bu

  1. rice
  2. food in general
    Ka lheuh pajôh bu?
    Have you eaten yet?

Amanab

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mbu/

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

  • John R. Roberts, Namia and Amanab Grammar Essentials (1992, SIL)

Amasi

Noun

bú

  1. dog (canine)

References

  • Africana Marburgensia (1973)

Bukawa

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

  • William Eckermann, A Descriptive Grammar of the Bukawa Language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea (2007)

Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

bu

  1. this

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bōs, bovem.

Noun

bu m ‎(plural buč)

  1. ox

Danish

Verb

bu

  1. imperative of bue

French

Pronunciation

Verb

bu m ‎(feminine singular bue, masculine plural bus, feminine plural bues)

  1. 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

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

bu m ‎(invariable)

  1. A unit of length equal to 1.818 metres (歩)
  2. A unit or area equal to 3.306 metres2 (歩)
  3. A tenth (decimal) (分)

Japanese

Romanization

bu

  1. rōmaji reading of ぶ
  2. rōmaji reading of ブ

Kapauri

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Kemtuik

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Lojban

Cmavo

bu ‎(rafsi bu'i or bus)

  1. used (either as a suffix or following another word) to form vowel, ".", ",", and non-Lojban letterals

Usage notes

  • The word to which this cmavo gets suffixed to becomes a compound cmavo of selma'o BY.

Derived terms

Lower Sorbian

Verb

bu

  1. second-person singular passive of byś
  2. third-person singular passive of byś

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu/

Noun

bu

  1. mother

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

bu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bū.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of bú.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of bǔ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of bù.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mekwei

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Mlap

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Nimboran

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Norman

Verb

bu

  1. past participle of baithe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [bʉʷː]

Etymology

From Danish bo, from Old Norse búa ‎(“to prepare, finish, make preparations, equip”), cognate with Old English būan, Old Frisian buwa, Old Saxon būan and Old High German būan (whence German bauen).

Verb

bu ‎(imperative bu, present tense bur, past tense budde, past participle budd or butt, present participle buande)

  1. to live (have permanent residence), stay
  2. to be, to dwell, to be in

References

“bu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

bu m ‎(oblique plural bus, nominative singular bus, nominative plural bu)

  1. chest; thorax

References

  • (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bu)

Old Norse

Noun

bu ?

  1. (Western dialect) dwelling.

References

Pa

Noun

bu

  1. (woman's) breast

References

  • 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)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buː/

Interjection

bu

  1. An onomatopoeic interjection imitating the sound of crying, usually written with two or more 'u's.

Portuguese

Interjection

bu!

  1. boo (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

bu

  1. past tense of is

Sentani

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

bu

  1. (Kajkavian) third-person singular future form of biti.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʉː

Interjection

bu

  1. boo; a loud exclamation intended to scare someone, usually a child.
  2. boo; an exclamation used to indicate derision or disapproval of what has just occurred.

Tabla

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Tarao

Noun

bu

  1. rice

Derived terms

  • bular ‎(“famine”)

References

  • 2002, Chungkham Yashwanta Singh, Tarao Grammar

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆 ‎(bu, “this”), from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) ‎(“this”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu/

Pronoun

bu

  1. this
    bu bir ev‎
    this is a house
    bunu sevmedim‎
    I did not like this
    bunlar benim kitaplarım‎
    these are my books

Declension

See also

Uzbek

Pronoun

bu ‎(Cyrillic spelling бу)

  1. this (demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing in the immediate vicinity of the speaker)
    Bu eshik.‎
    This is a door. / This door.

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /bɨː/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /biː/

Verb

bu

  1. third-person singular past of bod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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

Noun

bu

  1. knee

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