Fromem- +bus. Coined following the mass requisition by the British Army of London buses as troop carriers in World War I.
embus (third-person singular simple presentembusses,present participleembussing,simple past and past participleembussed)
embus (genitiveembuse,partitiveembust)
This noun needs aninflection-table template.
Inherited fromMalayembus, fromClassical Malayهمبوس(hembus), fromProto-Malayic*həmbus, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*qəmbus(“blow hard; snort, pant”).
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