tebu

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See also: Tebu

Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic [Term?] (compare Malay tebu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /təbu/
  • Hyphenation: te‧bu

Noun

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tebu

  1. sugar cane (species of grass)

Synonyms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay tebu, from Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tebu (plural tebu-tebu, first-person possessive tebuku, second-person possessive tebumu, third-person possessive tebunya)

  1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Javanese

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Etymology

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From Old Javanese tĕbu.

Noun

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tebu

  1. sugar cane

Malay

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tebu (Jawi spelling تبو, plural tebu-tebu, informal 1st possessive tebuku, 2nd possessive tebumu, 3rd possessive tebunya)

  1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

Further reading

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Marshallese

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Etymology

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From Japanese でぶ (debu).

Pronunciation

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  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [tˠeːbˠu], (enunciated) [tˠe pˠu]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /tˠejpˠiw/
  • Bender phonemes: {tȩybiw}

Adjective

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tebu

  1. fat
  2. overweight
  3. obese

References

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Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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tebu

  1. (intransitive) to jump
  2. (intransitive) to rebound, ricochet

Conjugation

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Conjugation of tebu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totebu fotebu mitebu
2nd notebu nitebu
3rd Masculine otebu itebu, yotebu
Feminine motebu
Neuter itebu
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh