bu

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?

Aiwoo

Noun

bu

  1. night

References

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)

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”)[1] Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆‎ (bu, “this”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu/

Determiner

bu

  1. 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

  • 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

bu

  1. 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.

See also

References

  1. ↑ . 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

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Clipping of ibu.

Noun

bu

  1. (slightly informal, between two speakers) mam

Italian

Etymology

From Japanese [Term?]

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)

Jabem

Noun

bu

  1. water

Further reading

  • Otto Dempwolff's Grammar of the Jabêm Language in New Guinea (published 2005)

Japanese

Romanization

bu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ブ

Kapauri

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

Kemtuik

Noun

bu

  1. water

References

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): /bʉː/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búð, akin to English booth

Noun

bu f (definite singular bua, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)

  1. booth, stall, small storage room or building

Etymology 2

From Danish bo, from Old Norse búa (“to prepare, finish, make preparations, equip”), cognate with Old English būan, English 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
Derived terms

References

“bu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

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

  1. chest; thorax

References

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

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)

Pangutaran Sama

Noun

bu

  1. fur

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 (Cyrillic spelling бу)

  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

References

  • 2002, Chungkham Yashwanta Singh, Tarao Grammar

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بو‎ (bu, “this”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bu, “this”), from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆‎ (bu, “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

  • bunca
  • bunlu
  • bunsuz

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.

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

bu

  1. (Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) to assemble, to gather into one place

Derived terms

Wakhi

Etymology

From *dvu, related to Tajik ду (du).

Numeral

bu

  1. two

Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bu

  1. third-person singular preterite 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.

Westrobothnian

Noun

bu f (definite singular bua, definite plural buen)

  1. (childish) ghost; nuisance, harm
    bua i feingren
    some sort of nuisance in the fingers

Woi

Noun

bu

  1. knee
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