bamboo

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Bamboo.

Etymology

From Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಂಬು (baṃbu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæmˈbu/

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Noun

bamboo (plural bamboos)

1. A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
2. The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
3. a didgeridoo
4. (slang) A British military or Honourable East India Company employee, who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.

Derived terms

• bamboo ceiling
• bamboo clam
• Bamboo Curtain, bamboo curtain
• bamboo man

Translations

plant

• Acholi: koo
• Albanian: bambu (sq)
• Arabic: خيزران m (xayzaran, xayzuran)

  Egyptian Arabic: خيزران m (xayzaran), بامبو m (bambu)

• Asturian: bambú m
• Banjarese: buluh, paring
• Bengali: বাঁশ (bãsh)
• Bulgarian: бамбу́к m (bambúk)
• Burmese: ဝါး (my) (wa:)
• Catalan: bambú m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 竹子 (zh) (zhúzi)

  Min Nan: 竹仔 (zh-min-nan) (tek-á)

• Czech: bambus (cs) m
• Danish: bambus c
• Dutch: bamboe (nl) n
• Esperanto: bambuo
• Faroese: bambus n
• Finnish: bambu (fi)
• French: bambou (fr) m
• Galician: bambú m
• German: Bambus (de) m
• Greek: μπαμπού (el) n (bampoú)
• Hawaiian: ʻohe
• Hebrew: במבוק (he) m (bambuq)
• Hindi: बांस (bāns)
• Hungarian: bambusz (hu)
• Indonesian: buluh (id), bambu (id), aur (id)
• Italian: bambù (it) m

• Japanese: 竹 (ja) (たけ, take)
• Jèrriais: bambou m
• Kannada: ಬಿದಿರು (kn) (bidiru)
• Khmer: ឫស្សី (km) (rɨhsəy)
• Korean: 대나무 (ko) (daenamu)
• Kyrgyz: бамбук (ky) m (bambuk)
• Lao: ໄມ້ໄຜ່ (mai phai)
• Latin: harundō Indica f
• Macedonian: бамбус m (bambus)
• Malay: pering

  Rumi: buluh (ms), bambu (ms), aur

  Jawi: بولوه, بمبو, اءور

• Maori: inanga
• Navajo: lókʼaatsoh
• Portuguese: bambu (pt) m
• Romanian: bambus (ro) m, bambu m
• Russian: бамбу́к (ru) m (bambúk)
• Serbo-Croatian: trskovača f
• Slovak: bambus m
• Slovene: bambus (sl) m
• Spanish: bambú (es) m
• Sundanese: awi (su)
• Swedish: bambu (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawayan
• Thai: ไผ่ (th) (pài)
• Tok Pisin: mambu
• Volapük: bambud (vo), (obsolete) lerid

wood

• Albanian: bambu (sq)
• Asturian: bambú m
• Bulgarian: бамбу́к m (bambúk)
• Catalan: bambú m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 竹子 (zh) (zhúzi), 竹材 (zhúcái)

• Czech: bambus (cs) m
• Dutch: bamboe (nl) n
• Finnish: bambu (fi)
• French: bambou (fr) m
• Galician: bambú m
• German: Bambus (de) m, Bambusrohr (de) n
• Hawaiian: ʻohe
• Hebrew: במבוק (he) m (bambuq)
• Italian: bambù (it) m

• Japanese: 竹 (ja) (たけ, take), 竹材 (たけざい, takezai)
• Jèrriais: bambou m
• Macedonian: бамбус m (bambus)
• Malay:

  Rumi: buluh (ms), bambu (ms), aur

  Jawi: بولوه, بمبو, اءور

• Portuguese: bambu (pt) m
• Russian: бамбу́к (ru) m (bambúk), бамбу́ковая трость f (bambúkovaja trostʹ)
• Slovene: bambus (sl) m
• Spanish: bambú (es) m
• Swedish: bambu (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawayan
• Thai: ไม้ไผ่ (th) (máai pài)
• Tok Pisin: mambu

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• Isthmus Zapotec: ^{(please verify)} bixiá

Adjective

bamboo (not comparable)

1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

Translations

made of bamboo

• Bulgarian: бамбуков (bambukov)
• Chinese traditional/simplified: 竹製的, 竹製的 (zhú zhì de)
• Czech: bambusový (cs) m
• Dutch: bamboe-
• Esperanto: bambua
• French: de bambou
• Hungarian: bambusz (hu)
• Italian: di bambù

• Japanese: 竹製の (たけせいの, takesei no)
• Macedonian: бамбусов m (bambusov)
• Polish: bambus (pl) m
• Portuguese: de bambu
• Russian: бамбу́ковый (ru) (bambúkovyj)
• Slovene: bambusov
• Tagalog: kawayan
• Tok Pisin: mambu

Verb

bamboo (third-person singular simple present bamboos, present participle bambooing, simple past and past participle bambooed)

1. (transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.

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Gooniyandi

Noun

bamboo

1. didgeridoo

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Mandinka

Noun

bamboo

1. crocodile