tebu

Brunei Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tebu

1. sugar cane (species of grass)

Synonyms

• galagah

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Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [təˈbu]
• Hyphenation: tê‧bu

Noun

têbu (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

• bertebu-tebu
• bertebu-tebukan
• menebu-nebu
• tebu-tebu

 

Further reading

• “tebu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təbu/
• Rhymes: -əbu, -bu, -u

Noun

tebu

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

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Marshallese

Etymology

From Japanese でぶ (debu).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

tebu

1. fat
2. overweight
3. obese

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary