bus
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.
Pronunciation Edit
- IPA(key): /bʌs/, enPR: bŭs
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /bʊs/
- (General Australian, New Zealand, Received Pronunciation, Scotland, Mid-Atlantic) IPA(key): /bɐs/
- (Northern Cities Vowel Shift, Ireland) IPA(key): /bɔs/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Homophones: Buss, buss
- Rhymes: -ʌs
Noun Edit
- (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads; by extension, the driver of said vehicle
- An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
- Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.
- (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
Synonyms Edit
- (electrical conductor): electrical bus, busbar, digit trunk
- (vehicle): autobus, coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, multibus, omnibus, Shillibeer (obsolete)
Hyponyms Edit
Derived terms Edit
- and then everyone on the bus clapped
- articulated bus
- banana bus
- battle bus
- bendy bus
- Boris bus
- bus bar
- busbar
- bus bridge
- bus buddy
- bus bulb
- bus captain
- bus conductor
- bus conductress
- bus driver
- bus duct
- bus factor
- bus fare
- bus lane
- bus mastering
- bus ministry
- bus pass
- bus rapid transit
- bus replacement service
- bus route
- bus shelter
- bus stand
- bus station
- bus stop
- bus stop chicane
- bus-stop flight
- bustitution
- bus topology
- bus trap
- busway
- catch the bus
- cheese bus
- city bus
- commuter bus
- corporation bus
- data bus
- double-decker bus
- drive the porcelain bus
- e-bus
- electric bus
- enterprise service bus
- front-side bus
- have a face like the back end of a bus
- horse bus
- how do I get to the bus station
- kneeling bus
- like the back end of a bus
- minibus
- miss the bus
- on the other bus
- open-top bus
- park the beef bus in tuna town
- park the bus
- party bus
- porcelain bus
- railbus
- ride the short bus
- satellite bus
- school bus
- school bus yellow
- shuttle bus
- spacecraft bus
- splitter bus
- stage bus
- straddling bus
- struggle bus
- the wheels came off the bus
- the wheels fell off the bus
- throw under the bus
- tour bus
- transit bus
- trolley bus
- trolleybus
- walking bus
- walking school bus
- water bus
- where does this bus go
Descendants Edit
- → Arabic: بَاص (bāṣ)
- ⇒ Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:)
- → Cantonese: 巴士 (baa1 si6-2)
- → Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì)
- → German: Bus m
- → Hindi: बस (bas)
- → Irish: bus
- → Japanese: バス (basu)
- → Korean: 버스 (beoseu)
- → Malay: bas
- → Pashto: بس
- ⇒ Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna)
- → Scottish Gaelic: bus
- → Thai: บัส (bát)
- → Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se)
- → Urdu: بس
- → Welsh: bws
Translations Edit
Verb Edit
bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)
- (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
- (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.
- (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
- (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
- He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
- 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13:
- He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.
- (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
- (clear meal remains): busboy
Translations Edit
Anagrams Edit
Afar Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bús m (plural buswá f or busuusá f)
Declension Edit
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absolutive | bús | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | búsu | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | bús | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | bustí | |||||||||||||||||
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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
Audio (file)
Noun Edit
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)
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).
Noun Edit
bus m (plural bussos)
- (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)
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)
- bus (vehicle)
Etymology 5 Edit
Noun Edit
bus m (plural busos)
- bus (electrical connector)
Further reading Edit
- “bus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cimbrian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Italian bus, a clipping of omnibus, from French omnibus.
Noun Edit
bus m
References Edit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Czech Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m inan
Declension Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m inan
Declension Edit
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)
Inflection Edit
Dutch Edit
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)
- (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
- (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
- bus (electrical conductor)
Derived terms Edit
Descendants Edit
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)
- A container, a box, a tin.
- A bushing.
- (chiefly historical) One of a variety of early modern firearms, such as flintlock and matchlock guns.
- (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
Etymology 3 Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Related to etymology 2.
Verb Edit
bus
- inflection of bussen:
French Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m or f (plural bus)
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
bus
- first/second-person singular past historic of boire
Participle Edit
bus m pl
Further reading Edit
- “bus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
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)
- bus: a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
Etymology 2 Edit
Onomatopoeic, related to embus.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus (first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)
Further reading Edit
- “bus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)
Declension Edit
Derived terms Edit
- bus altach (“bendy bus”)
- bus dhá stór (“double decker bus”)
- bus dhá urlár (“double decker bus”)
- bus scoile (“school bus”)
- bus tralaí (“trolleybus”)
- busáras (“bus station”)
- buslána (“bus lane”)
- lána bus (“bus lane”)
- líne busanna (“bus line”)
- pas bus (“bus pass”)
- scáthlán bus (“bus shelter”)
- stad bus (“bus-stop”)
- stáisiún bus (“bus station”)
- stiúrthóir bus (“bus conductor”)
- tairseach bus (“platform of bus”)
- tiománaí bus (“bus-driver”)
Mutation Edit
Irish mutation | ||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 48
- “bus”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
- Entries containing “bus” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Lithuanian Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
bùs
Lombard Edit
Etymology Edit
Akin to Italian buca, ultimately from Latin bucca, whence French French bouche.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus
Maltese Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
bus
Middle Irish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Celtic *bussus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, bulge”).
Noun Edit
bus (gender unknown)
Descendants Edit
Further reading Edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 bus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*bussu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 84
Norman Edit
Verb Edit
bus
Polish Edit
Etymology Edit
Clipping of autobus. Calque of English bus.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m anim (diminutive busik)
Declension Edit
Derived terms Edit
Further reading Edit
Romagnol Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m
- 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.
- un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.
- September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:
Scottish Gaelic Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Middle Irish bus.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m (genitive singular buis, plural buis or busan)
Etymology 2 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)
Mutation Edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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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 ?
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Shortening of autobús (in Spain) or borrowed from English bus (in Latin America).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus m (plural buses)
- 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
- “bus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From the verb busa (“make mischief, prank”).
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus n (uncountable)
- (fairly innocent) mischief (by children), pranking
- Trick or treat ― Bus eller godis ("Mischief or candy")
- (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 | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | bus | buset | — | — |
Genitive | bus | busets | — | — |
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit
- busa (“make mischief, prank”)
References Edit
- bus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- bus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- bus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams Edit
Tagalog Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔)
Usage notes Edit
- The pronunciation /bas/ is commonly used in Taglish speech, especially by younger speakers.
Derived terms Edit
See also Edit
References Edit
- “bus”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Tok Pisin Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
bus
- bush (remote rural areas)
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
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