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bus

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bus"

English Edit

 
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A bus (motor vehicle).

Etymology Edit

Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus (plural buses or busses)

  1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads; by extension, the driver of said vehicle
  2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
  3. Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
  4. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

Synonyms Edit

Hyponyms Edit

Derived terms Edit

Descendants Edit

Descendants

Translations Edit

See bus/translations § Noun.

Verb Edit

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.
    • 1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:
      But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
    • 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 23:
      ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
  3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
  4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
    He bussed 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 bussing for minimum wage.

Usage notes Edit

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

Derived terms Edit

Translations Edit

See bus/translations § Verb.

Anagrams Edit

Afar Edit

Etymology Edit

Akin to Saho bus.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbus/, [ˈbʊs]
  • Hyphenation: bus

Noun Edit

bús m (plural buswá f or busuusá f)

  1. vagina

Declension Edit

Declension of bús
absolutive bús
predicative búsu
subjective bús
genitive bustí
Postpositioned forms
l-case búsul
k-case búsuk
t-case búsut
h-case búsuh

References Edit

  • E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bus”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Afrikaans Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus (plural busse, diminutive bussie)

  1. (automotive) bus

Catalan Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

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

Noun Edit

bus m or f by sense (plural bussos)

  1. diver
Derived terms Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

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

Noun Edit

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 Edit

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

Noun Edit

bus m (plural busos)

  1. (archaic) flattery
Usage notes Edit

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

Etymology 4 Edit

Clipping of autobús.

Noun Edit

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (vehicle)

Etymology 5 Edit

Borrowed from English bus.

Noun Edit

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (electrical connector)

Further reading Edit

Cimbrian Edit

Etymology Edit

From Italian bus, a clipping of omnibus, from French omnibus.

Noun Edit

bus m

  1. (Luserna) bus (vehicle)
    Benn rifta dar bus? ― What time does the bus come?

References Edit

Czech Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m inan

  1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)
    Synonym: autobus
Declension Edit
Declension of bus (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative bus busy
genitive busu busů
dative busu busům
accusative bus busy
vocative buse busy
locative buse, busu busech
instrumental busem busy

Etymology 2 Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m inan

  1. (computing) bus (an electrical interface connecting two or more components)
Declension Edit
Declension of bus (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative bus busy
genitive busu busů
dative busu busům
accusative bus busy
vocative buse busy
locative busu busech
instrumental busem busy

Danish Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

  1. bus, coach

Inflection Edit

Declension of bus
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bus bussen busser busserne
genitive bus’ bussens bussers bussernes

Dutch Edit

 
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Pronunciation Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

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

Noun Edit

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
  2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
  3. bus (electrical conductor)
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bis
  • → Papiamentu: bùs
  • → Sranan Tongo: bùs

Etymology 2 Edit

From Middle Dutch busse, from Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā.

Noun Edit

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. A container, a box, a tin.
  2. A bushing.
  3. (chiefly historical) One of a variety of early modern firearms, such as flintlock and matchlock guns.
  4. (dated, Netherlands) A voluntary sick fund, especially before the introduction of universal health care in the Netherlands in the 1940s.
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit
Descendants Edit
  • Petjo: bus
  • → Indonesian: bis (“letterbox, mailbox”)

Etymology 3 Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Related to etymology 2.

Verb Edit

bus

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

French Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

Clipping of omnibus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m or f (plural bus)

  1. bus
    Synonym: autobus
Derived terms Edit

Etymology 2 Edit

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

bus

  1. first/second-person singular past historic of boire

Participle Edit

bus m pl

  1. masculine plural of bu

Further reading Edit

Indonesian Edit

 
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Alternative forms Edit

  • bas (Standard Malay)
  • bis (nonstandard)

Etymology 1 Edit

 
bus

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch bus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Pronunciation Edit

  • (standard) IPA(key): [ˈbʊs]
  • (dialect) IPA(key): [ˈbɪs], [ˈbəs], [ˈbas], [ˈbɘs]
  • Rhymes: -bʊs, -ʊs, -s
  • Hyphenation: bus

Noun Edit

bus (plural bus-bus, first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

  1. bus: a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

Etymology 2 Edit

Onomatopoeic, related to embus.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʊs/
  • Hyphenation: bus

Noun Edit

bus (first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

  1. wind

Further reading Edit

Irish Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

  1. bus
  2. (computing) bus

Declension Edit

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 Edit

Mutation Edit

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.

Further reading Edit

Lithuanian Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

bùs

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

Lombard Edit

Etymology Edit

Akin to Italian buca, ultimately from Latin bucca, whence French French bouche.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus

  1. hole

Maltese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Verb Edit

bus

  1. second-person singular imperative of bies

Middle Irish Edit

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Celtic *bussus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, bulge”).

Noun Edit

bus (gender unknown)

  1. (rare, poetic) lip

Descendants Edit

  • Irish: pus
  • Scottish Gaelic: bus

Further reading Edit

Norman Edit

Verb Edit

bus

  1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

Clipping of autobus. Calque of English bus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m anim (diminutive busik)

  1. (colloquial) bus

Declension Edit

Declension of bus
singular plural
nominative bus busy
genitive busu/busa busów
dative busowi busom
accusative bus/busa busy
instrumental busem busami
locative busie busach
vocative busie busy

Derived terms Edit

nouns

Further reading Edit

  • bus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romagnol Edit

FWOTD – 6 April 2014

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

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.

Scottish Gaelic Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Middle Irish bus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m (genitive singular buis, plural buis or busan)

  1. mouth
    Synonym: beul
  2. pout (facial expression)

Etymology 2 Edit

Borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)

  1. bus

Mutation Edit

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

Somali Edit

Noun Edit

bus ?

  1. dust

Spanish Edit

Etymology Edit

Shortening of autobús (in Spain) or borrowed from English bus (in Latin America).

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbus/ [ˈbus]
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: bus

Noun Edit

bus m (plural buses)

  1. Clipping of autobús; bus
    Synonyms: autobús; see also Thesaurus:autobús

Usage notes Edit

  • In Spain, bus is a colloquial word and in Latin America it is a formal word.

Derived terms Edit

Related terms Edit

Further reading Edit

Swedish Edit

Etymology Edit

From the verb busa (“make mischief, prank”).

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus n (uncountable)

  1. (fairly innocent) mischief (by children), pranking
    Trick or treat ― Bus eller godis ("Mischief or candy")
  2. (colloquial, chiefly in the definite "buset") criminals (on the lower rungs of the social ladder)
    att ta fast buset ― to catch the criminals

Usage notes Edit

Mainly associated with mischief and pranks by children, with ironic extensions to adults fooling around and criminality.

Declension Edit

Declension of bus 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative bus buset — —
Genitive bus busets — —

Derived terms Edit

Related terms Edit

  • busa (“make mischief, prank”)

References Edit

Anagrams Edit

Tagalog Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

bus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔)

  1. bus (vehicle)
    Synonym: awtobus
  2. bus (electrical conductor)

Usage notes Edit

  • The pronunciation /bas/ is commonly used in Taglish speech, especially by younger speakers.

Derived terms Edit

See also Edit

References Edit

Tok Pisin Edit

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Etymology Edit

From English bush.

Pronunciation Edit

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Noun Edit

bus

  1. bush (remote rural areas)
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:
      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.
      →New International Version translation

Derived terms Edit

West Flemish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From Middle Dutch busch, variant of bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun Edit

bus n

  1. forest

Etymology 2 Edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Same as Dutch "bus", but is it derived from that or shortened from "omnibus" independently?”)

Noun Edit

bus m

  1. bus
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