bubu (pluralbubus)
- Alternative form ofboubou(“type of robe”)
bubu
- alas
bubu m (pluralbubos)
- grain
Probably fromKongom-bùubu(“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).[1] CompareSaramaccanbubú(“jaguar”) andSranan Tongobubu(“bogeyman”).
bubu
- jaguar,Panthera onca
- ^Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors,Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton,→ISBN, page428
bubu
- land,dirt,place
FromProto-Austronesian*bubu.
bubu
- fish trap
FromProto-Austronesian*bubu.
bubu
- conicalbamboobasket, afish trap
- Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006)Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series;A-19)[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics,Academia Sinica
FromProto-Malayic*bubu, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*bubu, fromProto-Austronesian*bubu.
bubu (Jawi spellingبوبو,pluralbubu-bubu)
- fish trap
bubu
- accusativesingular ofbuba
Probably fromKongom-bùubu(“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).[1] CompareAukanbubu(“jaguar”) andSaramaccanbubú(“jaguar”).
bubu
- bogeyman,bugbear,monster
- ^Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors,Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton,→ISBN, page428
FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*bubu, fromProto-Austronesian*bubu.
bubuorᮘᮥᮘᮥ• (bubu)
- fishtrap
FromProto-Bantu[Term?].
bubu classV (pluralmabubu classVI)
- dumbperson
- muteperson
bubu
- mother
bubu
- afin orflipper of afish
bubu
- (transitive) todrill,bore ahole
bubu
- (transitive) toput out in therain
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
bubu
- toswell
Possibly fromHiri Motutubu(“grandparent”)
bubu
- grandparent
- anyelderlyrelative