minibus

See also: minibús and -minibus

English

A school minibus

A minibus taxi in South Africa

Etymology

mini- +‎ bus

Noun

minibus (plural minibuses or minibusses)

A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.
(South Africa) A-sixteen seater vehicle used as a taxi. A kombi.
- 2006, Weekend Argus, May 13/14, p.6
  Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.
(historical) A small four-wheeled carriage.

Translations

a small bus

Arabic: مِيكْرُوبَاص‎ m (mīkrūbāṣ), مِينِيبَاص‎ m (mīnībāṣ)
Armenian: միկրոավտոբուս (mikroavtobus)
Azerbaijani: mikroavtobus
Belarusian: мікрааўто́бус m (mikraaŭtóbus)
Bulgarian: минибу́с m (minibús)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 小巴 (siu² baa¹)

Mandarin: 麵包車 (zh), 面包车 (zh) (miànbāochē), 小巴 (xiǎobā)
Czech: minibus m
Danish: minibus c
Dutch: busje (nl) n
Estonian: väikebuss
Finnish: minibussi
French: minibus (fr) m
Georgian: მიკროავტობუსი (miḳroavṭobusi)
German: Kleinbus (de) m, Minibus (de) m
Hebrew: מִינִיבּוּס‎ (he) (mínibus)
Indonesian: bus mini
Japanese: マイクロバス (maikurobasu)
Korean: 승합차 (seunghapcha), 미니버스 (minibeoseu), 마이크로버스 (maikeurobeoseu)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: mikroautobuss m

Lithuanian: mikroautobusas m
Macedonian: минибус m (minibus)
Malay: bas mini
Norman: minibeusse f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: minibuss m

Nynorsk: minibuss m
Persian: مینی بوس‎ (fa) (mini-bus)
Polish: mikrobus (pl) m
Portuguese: micro-ônibus m, microônibus m
Romanian: microbuz (ro) n
Russian: микроавто́бус (ru) m (mikroavtóbus), маршру́тка (ru) f (maršrútka) (marshrutka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: минибус m

Roman: minibus (sh) m
Slovak: mikrobus m
Slovene: minibus m
Spanish: microbús (es) m, minibús m
Turkish: minibüs (tr)
Ukrainian: мікроавто́бус m (mikroavtóbus)
Vietnamese: xe buýt mini

See also

Anagrams

minisub

Czech

Noun

minibus m

minibus

French

Etymology

mini- +‎ bus

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi.ni.bys/

Noun

minibus m (plural minibus)

minibus

Further reading

“minibus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

English mini- +‎ bus

Noun

minibus m (invariable)

minibus (small bus)

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