bus

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English[edit]

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A bus (motor vehicle).

Etymology[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus from Latin omnibus (“for all, for everybody”); dative plural of omnis (“all”). The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus (plural buses or busses)

  1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
  2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
  3. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

Synonyms[edit]

Hyponyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Descendants
  • ⇒ Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:)
  • Chinese:
    • Cantonese: 巴士 (baa1 si6-2)
      • → Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì)
  • German: Bus m
  • Irish: bus
  • Japanese: バス (basu)
  • Malay: bas
  • Scottish Gaelic: bus
  • Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se)
  • Welsh: bws

Translations[edit]

medical slang: ambulance — see ambulance

Verb[edit]

bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)

  1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
  2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
    • 1966, Phil Ochs, "Love Me, I'm a Liberal", Phils Ochs in Concert.
      But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name
    • 2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest →ISBN, page 23
      ...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.
  3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
  4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
    He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
  5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
    He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

Usage notes[edit]

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus (plural busse, diminutive bussie)

  1. (automotive) bus

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Cognate to Spanish buso (“underwater snail”) and Portuguese búzio (“underwater snail”), from Latin būcina (“horn”).

Noun[edit]

bus m or f (plural bussos)

  1. diver

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural bussos)

  1. (archaic) A large sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries, broad of beam and with two or three masts.

Etymology 3[edit]

Probably from Persian بوس‎ (bus, “kiss”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. (archaic) flattery
Usage notes[edit]

Only found in the phrase fer lo bus (“to kiss up”).

Etymology 4[edit]

Reduction of autobús

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (vehicle)

Etymology 5[edit]

Borrowed from English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (electrical connector)

Czech[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

Synonyms[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

  1. bus, coach

Inflection[edit]

Declension of bus
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bus bussen busser busserne
genitive bus’ bussens bussers bussernes

Dutch[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
  2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
  3. bus (electrical conductor)
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-Germanic *buhsijǭ, *buhsuz. Compare German Büchse and English box.

Noun[edit]

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. container, box, tin
  2. bushing
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the main entry. Related to etymology 2.

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bussen
  2. imperative of bussen

French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m or f (plural bus)

  1. bus
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular past historic of boire
  2. second-person singular past historic of boire

Verb[edit]

bus m pl

  1. masculine plural of the past participle of boire

Further reading[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Dutch bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bus/
  • Hyphenation: bus

Noun[edit]

bus (plural bus-bus, first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

  1. bus

Alternative forms[edit]

  • bis (nonstandard)

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bus/
  • Hyphenation: bus

Noun[edit]

bus (plural bus-bus, first-person possessive busku, second-person possessive busmu, third-person possessive busnya)

  1. wind

Further reading[edit]

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

  1. bus
  2. (computing) bus

Declension[edit]

Declension of bus

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bus busanna
Vocative a bhus a bhusanna
Genitive bus busanna
Dative bus busanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bus na busanna
Genitive an bhus na mbusanna
Dative leis an mbus

don bhus

leis na busanna

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bus bhus mbus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Lithuanian[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bùs

  1. third-person singular future of būti
  2. third-person plural future of būti
  3. third-person singular future of busti
  4. third-person plural future of busti

Lombard[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. hole

Middle Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *bussus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell, bulge”).

Noun[edit]

bus (gender unknown)

  1. (rare, poetic) lip

Descendants[edit]

  • Scottish Gaelic: bus

References[edit]

Norman[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of autobus, borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m anim (diminutive busik)

  1. (colloquial) bus

Declension[edit]

declension of bus
singular plural
nominative bus busy
genitive busa busów
dative busowi busom
accusative busa busy
instrumental busem busami
locative busie busach
vocative busie busy

Further reading[edit]

  • bus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romagnol[edit]

FWOTD – 6 April 2014

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. hole
    • September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:
      un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.
      a mouse runs hastily towards its hole.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)

  1. bus

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Irish bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive singular buis, plural buis or busan)

  1. mouth
    Synonym: beul
  2. pout (facial expression)

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Shortening of autobús or borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural buses)

  1. Clipping of autobús; bus
    Synonym: autobús

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the verb busa (“to do mischief”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus n (uncountable)

  1. very innocent mischief, prank
    Trick or Treat is often translated with Bus eller godis
  2. general noise or trouble made by gangs of youths

Declension[edit]

Declension of bus 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative bus buset — —
Genitive bus busets — —

Derived terms[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus

  1. bus (vehicle)

Related terms[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bush.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

bus

  1. bush (remote rural areas)
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:25:
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
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Derived terms[edit]

West Flemish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch busch, variant of bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Noun[edit]

bus n

  1. forest

Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Same as Dutch "bus", but is it derived from that or shortened from "omnibus" independently?”)

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. bus
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