buah

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buah/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ah

Noun

buah

1. fruit (food)
2. fruit (part of plant)

Derived terms

• anak buah
• bebuah
• buah hati
• buah mulut
• buah pala
• buah pikiran
• buah pinggang
• buah tangan

Classifier

buah

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

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Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Noun

buah

1. fruit (food)
2. fruit (part of plant)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay buah, from Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Noun

buah (first-person possessive buahku, second-person possessive buahmu, third-person possessive buahnya)

1. fruit (part of plant)
2. fruit (food)

Classifier

buah

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and having volume, as well as abstract things.

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Malay

buah

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayic *buah, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buah/
• Rhymes: -uah, -wah, -ah

Noun

buah (Jawi spelling بواه, plural buah-buah, informal 1st possessive buahku, 2nd possessive buahmu, 3rd possessive buahnya)

1. fruit (part of plant)
2. fruit (food)

Derived terms

• berbuah
• buahkan
• dibuahkan
• membuah
• membuahkan
• buah baju
• buah bibir
• buah dada
• buah fikiran
• buah hati
• buah mulut
• buah pala
• buah pinggang
• buah tangan

Descendants

• Indonesian: buah

Classifier

buah

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

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Sundanese

Romanization

buah

1. Romanization of ᮘᮥᮃᮂ