bubu

bubu (plural bubus)

1. Alternative form of boubou (“type of robe”)

bubu

1. alas

bubu m (plural bubos)

1. grain

Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).^[1] Compare Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”) and Sranan Tongo bubu (“bogeyman”).

bubu

1. jaguar, Panthera onca

bubu

1. land, dirt, place

From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

bubu

1. fish trap

From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

bubu

1. conical bamboo basket, a fish 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

From Proto-Malayic *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

• IPA^(key): /bubu/
• Rhymes: -ubu, -bu, -u

bubu (Jawi spelling بوبو, plural bubu-bubu, informal 1st possessive bubuku, 2nd possessive bubumu, 3rd possessive bubunya)

1. fish trap

• lukah

• Indonesian: bubu

• "bubu" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “bubu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

bubu

1. accusative singular of buba

Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”).^[1] Compare Aukan bubu (“jaguar”) and Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”).

• IPA^(key): /buˈbu/

bubu

1. bogeyman, bugbear, monster

• boeboe (dated, pre-1947)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

• IPA^(key): /bubu/
• Rhymes: -ubu, -bu, -u

bubu or ᮘᮥᮘᮥ • (bubu)

1. fish trap

• naheun bubu pahareup-hareup (“to borrow money from each other, lit. "to set traps opposite each other"”)

• 'BOEBOE', in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

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bubu (ma class, plural mabubu)

1. dumb person
2. mute person

bubu

1. mother

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.bu]

bubu

1. a fin or flipper of a fish

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.bu]

bubu

1. (transitive) to drill, bore a hole

Conjugation of bubu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tobubu	fobubu	mibubu
2nd	nobubu	nibubu
3rd	Masculine	obubu	ibubu, yobubu†
Feminine	mobubu
Neuter	ibubu
† - archaic

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.bu]

bubu

1. (transitive) to put out in the rain

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bubu

1. to swell

Possibly from Hiri Motu tubu (“grandparent”)

bubu

1. grandparent
2. any elderly relative