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bu

See also: Variations of "bu"

bu - English

Noun

bu

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

Anagrams

bu - Acehnese

Noun

bu

  1. rice
  2. food in general

bu - Aiwoo

Noun

bu

  1. night

bu - Amanab

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mbu/

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Amasi

Noun

bú

  1. dog (canine)

bu - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu/

Determiner

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.

Usage notes

  • 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).

Pronoun

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.
  2. he, she

bu - Bukawa

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

bu

  1. this

bu - Dalmatian

Noun

bu m (plural buč)

  1. ox

bu - Danish

Verb

bu

  1. imperative of bue

bu - French

Pronunciation

Participle

bu (feminine 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 - Gresi

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

bu

  1. you (second person singular).

bu - Indonesian

Noun

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

  1. (slightly informal, between two speakers) mam

bu - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbu/
  • Hyphenation: bù

Noun

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)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbu/
  • Hyphenation: bù

Noun

bu m (invariable)

  1. a tenth (decimal) (分)

bu - Jabem

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Japanese

Romanization

bu

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

bu - Kapauri

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Kemtuik

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Lower Sorbian

Verb

bu

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

bu - Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu/

Noun

bu

  1. mother

bu - Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /buː/

Noun

bu m (plural abwa or but, feminine omm)

  1. (obsolete) father

Usage notes

  • The word had the same syntactic constraints as ħu (“brother”), which compare.
  • As in Arabic, the word was often used figuratively to associate a person with some object or activity. Therefore, in the remaining compounds bu typically means “the one with...”, “the one that is...”, “the one who always...”, rather than literally “father”.

Derived terms

bu - Mandarin

Romanization

bu

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

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

bu - Mekwei

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Mlap

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Nga La

Noun

bu

  1. nest

bu - Nias

Noun

bu (mutated form mbu)

  1. hair
  2. fur
  3. feather

bu - Nimboran

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Norman

Verb

bu

  1. past participle of baithe

bu - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bʉː/

Verb

bu (present tense bur, past tense budde, past participle budd/butt, passive infinitive buast, present participle buande, imperative bu)

  1. (intransitive) to live (have permanent residence), stay
  2. (intransitive) to be, to dwell, to be in
  3. (transitive) to prepare

Derived terms

Noun

bu n (definite singular buet, indefinite plural bu, definite plural bua)

  1. an estate, belongings

Derived terms

Alternative forms

  • bud (non-standard since 1917)

Noun

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

  1. booth, stall, small storage room or building
  2. (rare) a shop or a workshop

Declension

feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bu bua buer buene
compound-genitive ― ― ― ―

Derived terms

  • brorbu
  • fiskarbu
  • fiskebu
  • fjølbu
  • fjølebu
  • handelsbu
  • høybu
  • kakebu
  • kjellarbu
  • krambu
  • kvilebu
  • loftbu
  • loftsbu
  • matbu
  • pakkbu
  • pølsebu
  • reiskapsbu
  • sengbu
  • sengebu
  • seterbu
  • sjøbu
  • stolpebu
  • stølsbu
  • tollbu
  • vaktbu
  • vedbu
  • veidebu

Interjection

bu

  1. boo! Used to indicate derision or disapproval.

Derived terms

Anagrams

bu - Old French

Noun

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

  1. chest; thorax

bu - Pa

Noun

bu

  1. (woman's) breast

bu - Pangutaran Sama

Noun

bu

  1. fur

bu - Pnar

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu/

Verb

bu

  1. to suck, to suckle

bu - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /buː/
  • Syllabification: bu

Interjection

bu

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

bu - Portuguese

Interjection

bu!

  1. boo (loud exclamation intended to scare someone)

bu - Romagnol

Verb

bu

  1. past participle of avér (“to have”)

bu - Romanian

Interjection

bu

  1. sound made by an ox
  2. hoot; sound made by an owl

bu - Rukai

Noun

bu

  1. bow (weapon for shooting arrows)

bu - Salar

Noun

bu (3rd person possessive {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

  1. this

bu - Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pu/
  • Hyphenation: bu

Verb

bu

  1. past/conditional of is

Usage notes

  • Before a word beginning with a vowel or fh, the form b' is used.

bu - Sentani

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Serbo-Croatian

Verb

bu (Cyrillic spelling бу)

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

bu - Spanish

Interjection

bu

  1. boo!

bu - Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bʉː/

Interjection

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.

Derived terms

bu - Tabla

Noun

bu

  1. water

bu - Tarao

Noun

bu

  1. rice

Derived terms

bu - Tedim Chin

Noun

bu

  1. nest

bu - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu/

Pronoun

bu

  1. this
    • Bu bir ev. ― This is a house.
    • Bunu sevmedim. ― I did not like this.
    • Bunlar benim kitaplarım. ― These are my books.

Declension

singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) bu bunlar
definite accusative (belirtme) bunu bunları
dative (yönelme) buna bunlara
locative (bulunma) bunda bunlarda
ablative (ayrılma) bundan bunlardan
genitive (tamlayan) bunun bunların

Derived terms

bu - Uzbek

Pronoun

bu (plural bular)

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

Determiner

bu

  1. this
    • Bu sahifada hozircha hech qanday matn yoʻq.
      • There is currently no text in this page. / This page currently has no text.
    • Antonym: u

bu - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cái) bu • (𥮉)

  1. a cage (often dome-shaped and used for chickens)

Noun

bu • (𡜵)

  1. (rare) mom; mother

Alternative forms

Verb

bu • (咆, 蚫)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms
  • ruồi bu kiến đậu

bu - Wakhi

Numeral

bu

  1. two

bu - Welsh

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bu

  1. third-person singular preterite of bod

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
bu fu mu unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

bu - Woi

Noun

bu

  1. knee

bu - Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu˧/

Verb

bu

  1. (transitive) to hide

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu˧˥/

Noun

bú

  1. nest
  2. cottage, hut

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /bu˧˩/

Noun

bù

  1. cooked rice
Meaning and Definition of bu
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