Wiktionary

bu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bu"

English edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. Abbreviation of bushel (a unit of weight or dry measure).
  2. Clipping of bureau.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams edit

Acehnese edit

Noun edit

bu

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

Aiwoo edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. night

References edit

Amanab edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

References edit

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

Amasi edit

Noun edit

bú

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): /bu/
  • Audio(file)

Determiner edit

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 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

  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.
  2. he, she

See also edit

  • o (“that”)

References edit

  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 edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

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

  1. this

Dalmatian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin bōs, bovem.

Noun edit

bu m (plural buč)

  1. ox

Danish edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. imperative of bue

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

bu (feminine 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 edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

References edit

Guinea-Bissau Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese vós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.

Pronoun edit

bu

  1. you (second person singular).

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of ibu.

Noun edit

bu (first-person possessive buku, second-person possessive bumu, third-person possessive bunya)

  1. (slightly informal, between two speakers) mam

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Japanese 歩 (bu).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: bù

Noun edit

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)

Etymology 2 edit

From Japanese 分 (bu).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu/
  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: bù

Noun edit

bu m (invariable)

  1. a tenth (decimal) (分)

Jabem edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

Further reading edit

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

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

bu

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

Kapauri edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

References edit

Kemtuik edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

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Lower Sorbian edit

Verb edit

bu

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

Malay edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. mother

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)

  1. (obsolete) father
    Synonym: missier

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

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

  1. water

References edit

Mlap edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

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Nga La edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓuu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pru(w).

Noun edit

bu

  1. nest

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)

  1. hair
  2. fur
  3. feather

References edit

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 37.

Nimboran edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

References edit

Norman edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. 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)

  1. (intransitive) to live (have permanent residence), stay
  2. (intransitive) to be, to dwell, to be in
  3. (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)

  1. 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)

  2. booth, stall, small storage room or building
  3. (rare) a shop or a workshop
Declension edit
  Declension of bu (strong ō-stem)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bu bua buer buene
compound-genitive ― ― ― ―
Derived terms edit

Etymology 4 edit

From English boo.

Interjection edit

bu

  1. boo! Used to indicate derision or disapproval.
Derived terms edit

References edit

Anagrams edit

Old French edit

Noun edit

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

  1. chest; thorax

References edit

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

Pa edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. (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

  1. fur

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

  1. to suck, to suckle

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

bu

  1. 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!

  1. boo (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)

Romagnol edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. past participle of avér (“to have”)

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection edit

bu

  1. sound made by an ox
  2. hoot; sound made by an owl

Rukai edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. 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])

  1. this

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], 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pu/
  • Hyphenation: bu

Verb edit

bu

  1. 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

  1. water

References edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Verb edit

bu (Cyrillic spelling бу)

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

Spanish edit

Interjection edit

bu

  1. boo!

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

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.

Derived terms edit

Tabla edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. water

References edit

Tarao edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. rice

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar

Tedim Chin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ɓuu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pru(w).

Noun edit

bu

  1. nest

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

  1. this
    Bu bir ev. ― This is a house.
    Bunu sevmedim. ― I did not like this.
    Bunlar benim kitaplarım. ― These are my books.

Declension edit

Declension of bu
singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) bu bunlar
definite accusative (belirtme) bunu bunları
dative (yönelme) buna bunlara
locative (bulunma) bunda bunlarda
ablative (çıkma) bundan bunlardan
genitive (tamlayan) bunun bunların

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Upper Sorbian edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. second/third-person singular passive of być

Uzbek edit

Other scripts
Cyrillic бу (bu)‍
Latin ‍
Perso-Arabic

Pronoun edit

bu (plural bular)

  1. this (demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing in the immediate vicinity of the speaker)
    Antonym: u

Determiner edit

bu

  1. 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

(classifier cái) bu • (𥮉)

  1. a cage (often dome-shaped and used for chickens)

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

bu • (𡜵)

  1. (rare) mom; mother
See also edit

Etymology 3 edit

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

bu • (咆, 蚫)

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

Wakhi edit

Etymology edit

From *dvu, related to Tajik ду (du).

Numeral edit

bu

  1. two

Welsh edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. third-person singular preterite of bod

Mutation edit

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 edit

Noun edit

bu

  1. knee

Zou edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

bu

  1. (transitive) to hide

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bú

  1. nest
  2. cottage, hut

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bù

  1. cooked rice

References edit

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, pages 62
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