bus

See also Appendix:Variations of "bus"

English

Wikipedia

A bus (motor vehicle).

Etymology

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bʌs/, [bɐs], enPR: bŭs, X-SAMPA: /bVs/, [b6s]

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• (US) IPA: /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs, X-SAMPA: /bVs/

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

Noun

bus (plural buses or busses)

1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
3. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

Synonyms

• (vehicle): coach, omnibus
• (electrical conductor): electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk

Derived terms

Terms derived from bus

booze bus busbar bus duct bus lane short bus

bus route bus stop bustitution back end of a bus, look like the back end of a bus

Translations

vehicle

• Abkhaz: автобус (ab) (avtobus)
• Afrikaans: bus (af)
• Albanian: autobus (sq)
• Arabic: حافلة (ar) (ḥāfila) f, باص (ar) (bāṣ) m, أتوبيس (ar) (ʾutubīs) m
• Armenian: ավտոբուս (hy) (avtobus)
• Azeri: avtobus (az)
• Belarusian: аўтобус (be) (aŭtóbus) m
• Bengali: বাস (bn) (bas)
• Breton: bus m, karr-boutin m
• Bulgarian: автобус (bg) (avtóbus)
• Burmese: ဘတ်စကား (my) (ba' sa̱ka:)
• Catalan: autobús (ca) m
• Chechen: автобус (avtobus)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (gung1 gung6 hei3 ce1), 公車, 公车 (gung1 ce1), 巴士 (baa1 si6, baa1 si2)

  Mandarin: 公共汽車 (cmn), 公共汽车 (cmn) (gōnggòngqìchē), 巴士 (cmn) (bāshì), (Taiwan only) 公車 (cmn), 公车 (cmn) (gōngchē)

  Min Nan: 公共汽車 (nan), 公共汽车 (nan) (kong-kiōng-khì-chhia), (Taiwan) 公車 (nan), 公车 (nan) (kong-chhia), 巴士 (nan) (bá-suh)

• Crimean Tatar: avtobus
• Czech: autobus (cs) m
• Danish: bus (da)
• Dutch: bus (nl) m, autobus (nl) m
• Esperanto: buso (eo), aŭtobuso (eo)
• Estonian: buss (et), autobuss (et)
• Ewe: bɔs
• Faroese: bussur (fo) m
• Finnish: bussi (fi), linja-auto (fi)
• French: autobus (fr) m, bus (fr) m
• Georgian: ავტობუსი (ka) (avtobusi)
• German: Bus (de) m
• Greek: λεωφορείο (el) (leoforeío) n
• Greenlandic: bussi (kl)
• Gujarati: બસ (gu) (bas)
• Hebrew: אוטובוס (he) (ot'obus) m
• Hindi: बस (hi) (bas) f
• Hungarian: autóbusz (hu), busz (hu)
• Icelandic: strætisvagn (is) m (city transport), strætó (is) m (informal; city transport), langferðabíll (is) m (long distance), rúta (is) f (informal; long distance)
• Inari Sami: bussi
• Indonesian: bus (id), bis (id), otobis (id)
• Interlingua: omnibus, autobus, bus
• Italian: autobus (it) m, pullman (it) m, corriera (it) f
• Japanese: バス (ja) (basu), (rare) 乗合自動車 (ja) (のりあいじどうしゃ, noriai jidōsha)
• Kamba: mbasi
• Kannada: ಬಸ್ಸು (kn) (bas'su)
• Kazakh: автобус (kk) (avtobus)
• Khmer: ឡានឈ្នួល (km) (laan chnuəl)
• Kikuyu: bathi
• Korean: 버스 (ko) (beoseu) (South Korea), 뻐스 (ko) (ppoeseu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پاس (ku)

• Kyrgyz: автобус (ky) (avtobus)
• Lao: ລົດເມ (lo) (lot mē), ລົດ (lo) (lot)
• Latin: laophŏrum (la) n
• Latvian: autobuss (lv) m
• Lithuanian: autobusas (lt) m
• Luhya: ebasi
• Lule Sami: bussa
• Luo: bas
• Luxembourgish: Bus (lb) m
• Macedonian: автобус (mk) (ávtobus) m
• Malay: bas (ms)
• Malayalam: ബസ് (ml) (bas)
• Maltese: xarabank (mt), karozza tal-linja (mt), tal-linja (mt)
• Mongolian: автобус (mn) (avtobus)
• Nahuatl: calmimilolli
• Navajo: diné bee naagehé
• Norwegian: buss (no) m
• Ossetian: автобус (avtobus)
• Persian: اتوبوس (fa) (otobus)
• Polish: autobus (pl) m (city transport), autokar (pl) m
• Portuguese: ônibus (pt) m (Brazil), autocarro (pt) m (Portugal), (Angola) machimbombo (pt) m
• Romanian: autobuz (ro) n
• Russian: автобус (ru) (avtóbus) m
• Scottish Gaelic: bus (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутобус (sh) m

  Roman: autobus (sh) m

• Sinhalese: බස් (si) (bas)
• Skolt Sami: buss
• Slovak: autobus (sk) m
• Slovene: avtobus (sl) m
• Sotho: bese (st)
• Spanish: autobús (es) m, bus (es) m (Latin America), camión (es) m (Mexico), camioneta (es) f (Guatemala), cazadora (es) f (Costa Rica), colectivo m (Argentina), guagua (es) f (Caribbean Islands, Spain's Canary Islands), micro (es) f (Chile), micro (es) m (Argentina), ómnibus (es) m (Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), bondi (es) m (Argentina, colloquial), rufa (es) f (Cuba, colloquial)
• Swahili: basi (sw)
• Swedish: buss (sv) c
• Tagalog: bus (tl)
• Tajik: автобус (tg) (avtobus)
• Tamil: பேருந்து (ta) (pēruntu), பஸ் (ta) (pas)
• Tatar: автобус (tt) (avtobus)
• Telugu: బస్సు (te) (bassu)
• Thai: รถบัส (th) (rót-bàt), รถ (th) (rót), บัส (th) (bàt)
• Turkish: otobüs (tr)
• Turkmen: awtobus (tk)
• Ukrainian: автобус (uk) (avtóbus) m
• Urdu: بس (ur) (bas) f
• Uzbek: avtobus (uz)
• Vietnamese: xe buýt (vi)
• Volapük: nibud (vo)
• Welsh: bws (cy) m

electrical conductor

• Bulgarian: шина (bg) (šína) f
• Catalan: bus (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總線 (cmn), 总线 (cmn) (zǒngxiàn), (Taiwan) 匯流排 (cmn), 汇流排 (cmn) (huìliúpái)

• Greek: δίαυλος (el) (díavlos) m
• Italian: bus (it) m

• Japanese: バス (ja) (basù)
• Macedonian: магистрала (mk) (magistrála) f
• Norwegian: buss (no) m
• Romanian: magistrală f
• Russian: шина (ru) (šína) f
• Swahili: basi (sw)

medical slang: ambulance

• Japanese: 救急車 (ja) (kyūkyū-sha)

Verb

bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)

1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.

   He bused tables as the restaurant emptied out.

5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

   He’s been busing for minimum wage.

Usage notes

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

Derived terms

• (clear meal remains): busboy

Translations

transport via a motor bus

• Dutch: vervoeren (nl) met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl)

• Norwegian: busse (no)

transport students to school

• Dutch: vervoeren (nl) met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl)

• Norwegian: busse (no)

travel by bus

• Dutch: met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl) reizen (nl)

• Norwegian: busse (no) (rarely used)

clear meal remains from

• Dutch: afruimen (nl)

work as a table clearer

• Dutch: afruimen (nl)

Anagrams

• sub
• UBS
• USB

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Afrikaans

Noun

bus

1. (automotive) bus

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Cognate to Spanish buso (“underwater snail”) and Portuguese búzio (“underwater snail”), from Latin būcina (“horn”).

Noun

bus m, f (plural bussos)

1. diver

Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).

Noun

bus m (plural bussos)

1. (archaic) A large sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries, broad of beam and with two or three masts.

Etymology 3

Probably from Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”).

Noun

bus m (plural busos)

1. (archaic) flattery

Usage notes

Only found in the phrase fer lo bus (“to kiss up”).

Etymology 4

Reduction of autobús

Noun

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (vehicle)

Etymology 5

From English bus.

Noun

bus m (plural busos)

1. bus (electrical connector)

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Czech

Noun

bus m

1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

Synonyms

• autobus

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Danish

Etymology

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bus/, [b̥us]

Noun

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

1. bus, coach

Inflection

    Inflection of bus

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	bus	bussen	busser	busserne
genitive	bus’	bussens	bussers	bussernes

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏs
• IPA: /bʏs/

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Etymology 1

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Noun

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje)

1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
3. bus (electrical conductor)

Derived terms

• busbaan
• schoolbus

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-Germanic *buhsijōn, *buhsuz. Compare German Büchse.

Noun

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje)

1. container, box, tin

Derived terms

• brievenbus
• drinkbus

Verb

bus

1. first-person singular present indicative of bussen
2. imperative of bussen

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French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bys/
• Homophones: busse, busses, bussent

Noun

bus m (plural bus)

1. bus

Synonyms

• autobus

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /by/
• Homophones: bu, bue, bues, but, bût

Verb

bus

1. first-person singular indicative simple past of boire
2. second-person singular indicative simple past of boire
3. plural past participle of boire

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Irish

Etymology

From English bus.

Noun

bus m (genitive bus, nominative plural busanna)

1. bus

Declension

Declension of bus

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative bus busanna Vocative a bhus a bhusanna Genitive bus busanna Dative bus busanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an bus na busanna Genitive an bhus na mbusanna Dative leis an mbus don bhus leis na busanna

Derived terms

• busáras
• lána bus, buslána

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bus	bhus	mbus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Jèrriais

Verb

bus

1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

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Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bʊs]

Verb

bùs

1. third-person singular future tense of būti.
2. third-person plural future tense of būti.
3. third-person singular future tense of busti.
4. third-person plural future tense of busti.

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Lojban

Rafsi

bus

1. rafsi of bu.

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *beu- (“to swell, bulge”).

Noun

bus

1. lip

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Romagnol

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bus/

Noun

bus m

1. hole
   • September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:

     un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.

     a mouse runs hastily towards its hole.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From English bus.

Noun

bus m (genitive bus, plural busaichean)

1. bus

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bus.

Noun

bus m (genitive buis, plural buis or busan)

1. pout (facial expression)

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Swedish

Etymology

From the verb busa (“to do mischief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bʉ͍ːs]

Noun

bus n (uncountable)

1. very innocent mischief, prank

   Trick or Treat is often translated with Bus eller godis

2. general noise or trouble made by gangs of youths

Declension

Declension of bus

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	bus	buset
genitive	bus	busets

Derived terms

• NetBus

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Tagalog

Etymology

From English bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bus/

Noun

bus

1. bus (vehicle)

Related terms

• sasakyan
• kotse
• transit

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bush.

Noun

bus

1. bush (remote rural areas)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:25 (translation here):

     God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.

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Derived terms

• bus kanaka