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bubu

See also: bubú and bùbù

English

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Noun

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bubu (plural bubus)

  1. Alternative form of boubou (“type of robe”)

Albanian

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Interjection

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bubu

  1. alas

Asturian

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Noun

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bubu m (plural bubos)

  1. grain

Aukan

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Etymology

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Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).[1] Compare Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”) and Sranan Tongo bubu (“bogeyman”).

Noun

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bubu

  1. jaguar, Panthera onca

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  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428

Guugu Yimidhirr

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Noun

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bubu

  1. land, dirt, place

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

Noun

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bubu

  1. fish trap

Kavalan

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Etymology

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From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

Noun

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bubu

  1. conical bamboo basket, a fish trap

References

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  • Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006) Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

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Noun

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bubu (Jawi spelling بوبو, plural bubu-bubu, informal 1st possessive bubuku, 2nd possessive bubumu, 3rd possessive bubunya)

  1. fish trap

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Descendants

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  • Indonesian: bubu

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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bubu

  1. accusative singular of buba

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).[1] Compare Aukan bubu (“jaguar”) and Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bubu

  1. bogeyman, bugbear, monster

References

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  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428

Sundanese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bubu or ᮘᮥᮘᮥ • (bubu)

  1. fish trap

Derived terms

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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bubu (ma class, plural mabubu)

  1. dumb person
  2. mute person

Taroko

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Noun

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bubu

  1. mother

Ternate

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bubu

  1. a fin or flipper of a fish

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bubu

  1. (transitive) to drill, bore a hole
Conjugation
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Conjugation of bubu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tobubu fobubu mibubu
2nd nobubu nibubu
3rd Masculine obubu ibubu, yobubu†
Feminine mobubu
Neuter ibubu
† - archaic

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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bubu

  1. (transitive) to put out in the rain

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tetum

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Verb

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bubu

  1. to swell

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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Possibly from Hiri Motu tubu (“grandparent”)

Noun

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bubu

  1. grandparent
  2. any elderly relative
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