bu

See also Appendix:Variations of "bu"

English

Abbreviation

bu

1. bushel, a unit of weight or dry measure
2. stammered version of but, usually spoken when in denial

Anagrams

• UB

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Acehnese

Noun

bu

1. rice
2. commonly used to mean food in general

   Ka lheuh pajôh bu?

   Have you eaten yet?

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Amanab

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mbu/

Noun

bu

1. water

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Crimean Tatar

Pronoun

bu

1. this

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bōs, bovem.

Noun

bu m. (plural buč)

1. ox

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Danish

Verb

bu

1. imperative of bue

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /by/, SAMPA: /by/
• Homophones: bue, bues, bus, but, bût

Verb

bu m. (f bue, m plural bus, f 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?

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Italian

Etymology

Japanese

Noun

bu m. inv.

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)

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Japanese

Syllable

bu

1. The hiragana syllable ぶ (bu) or the katakana syllable ブ (bu) in Hepburn romanization.

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Lojban

Cmavo

bu

1. used (either as a suffix or following another word) to form vowel, ".", ",", and non-Lojban letterals

Usage notes

• The word to which this cmavo gets suffixed to becomes a compound cmavo of selma'o BY.

Derived terms

• (Lojban letterals) .abu, .ebu, .ibu, .obu, .ubu, .ybu, denpa bu, slaka bu
• (Miscellaneous) .uibu, joibu, pi'ibu, tobu, toibu

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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

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

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Old French

Noun

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

1. chest; thorax

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881)

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Old Norse

Noun

bu

1. (Western dialect) dwelling.

References

• Wikipedia article Old Norse language. Accessed August 5, 2005.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /buː/

Interjection

bu

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Verb

bu

1. Past tense of is

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Swedish

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.

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bu, from Proto-Turkic *bu(-n) (“this”).

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

declension of bu

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

See also

• şu

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Uzbek

Pronoun

bu (бу)

1. Demonstrative pronoun used to indicate a thing in the immediate vicinity of the speaker. this.
   • Bu eshik.

     This is a door. / This door.

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Woi

Noun

bu

1. knee