bu

bu

1. Abbreviation of bushel. (a unit of weight or dry measure)

• UB

bu

1. rice
2. food in general

   Ka lheuh pajôh bu?

   Have you eaten yet?

bu

1. night

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /mbu/

bu

1. water

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

bú

1. dog (canine)

• Africana Marburgensia (1973)

From Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”)[1] Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆‎ (bu, “this”).

• IPA^(key): /bu/

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.

• 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).

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.

• o (“that”)

bu

1. water

• William Eckermann, A Descriptive Grammar of the Bukawa Language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea (2007)

bu

1. this

From Latin bōs, bovem.

bu m (plural buč)

1. ox

bu

1. imperative of bue

• IPA^(key): /by/
• Homophones: bue, bues, bus, but, bût

bu m (feminine singular 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?

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111

From Portuguese vós. Cognates with Kabuverdianu bo.

bu

1. you (second person singular).

Clipping of ibu.

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

1. (slightly informal, between two speakers) mam

From Japanese [Term?]

• Rhymes: -u

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)
3. A tenth (decimal) (分)

bu

1. water

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

bu

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

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 115

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111

bu

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

• IPA^(key): /bu/

bu

1. mother

• ibu (full)
• emak

bu

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

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 111

bu

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 110

bu

1. past participle of baithe

• IPA^(key): /bʉː/

From Old Norse búð, akin to English booth

bu f (definite singular bua, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)

1. booth, stall, small storage room or building

From Danish bo, from Old Norse búa (“to prepare, finish, make preparations, equip”), cognate with Old English būan, English buwa, Old Saxon būan and Old High German būan (whence German bauen).

bu (imperative bu, present tense bur, past tense budde, past participle budd or butt, present participle buande)

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

• bustad

“bu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

1. chest; thorax

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bu)

bu

1. (woman's) breast

• 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)

bu

1. fur

• IPA^(key): /buː/

bu

1. An onomatopoeic interjection imitating the sound of crying, usually written with two or more 'u's.

bu!

1. boo (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)

bu

1. past tense of is

bu

1. water

• H. K. J. Cowan, Grammar of the Sentani Language (1965, ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff)

bu (Cyrillic spelling бу)

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

• Rhymes: -ʉː

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.

bu

1. water

• Kenneth Gregerson, Margaret Hartzler, Towards a Reconstruction of Proto-Tabla-Sentani Phonology, Oceanic Linguistics, volume 26, numéro 1/2, 1987, pages 1-29, page 7

bu

1. rice

• bular (“famine”)

• 2002, Chungkham Yashwanta Singh, Tarao Grammar

From Ottoman Turkish بو‎ (bu, “this”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (bu, “this”), from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆‎ (bu, “this”).

• IPA^(key): /bu/

bu

1. this

   Bu bir ev. ― This is a house.

   Bunu sevmedim. ― I did not like this.

   Bunlar benim kitaplarım. ― These are my books.

• bunca
• bunlu
• bunsuz

• şu
• o

bu (Cyrillic spelling бу)

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

   Bu eshik.

   This is a door. / This door.

• bâu

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓu˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˧˧]

bu (咆, 蚫)

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

From *dvu, related to Tajik ду (du).

bu

1. two

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /bɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /biː/

bu

1. third-person singular preterite of bod

bu f (definite singular bua, definite plural buen)

1. (childish) ghost; nuisance, harm

   bua i feingren

   some sort of nuisance in the fingers

bu

1. knee

bu

1. cooked rice
2. cottage

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf