bus

bús (canonical masculine)
buswá (feminine plural)
busuusá (feminine plural)
bús (absolutive)
búsu (predicative)
bús (subjective)
bustí (genitive)
búsul (l-case with-postposition)
búsuk (k-case with-postposition)
búsut (t-case with-postposition)
búsuh (h-case with-postposition)


bus

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


bus

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

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


bus

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


bus

Benn rifta dar bus?

From Italian bus, a clipping of omnibus, from French omnibus.


bus

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

bus (nominative singular)
busy (nominative plural)
busu (genitive singular)
busů (genitive plural)
busu (dative singular)
busům (dative plural)
bus (accusative singular)
busy (accusative plural)
buse (singular vocative)
busy (plural vocative)
buse (locative singular)
busu (locative singular)
busech (locative plural)
busem (instrumental singular)
busy (instrumental plural)


bus

(computing) bus (an electrical interface connecting two or more components)

bus (nominative singular)
busy (nominative plural)
busu (genitive singular)
busů (genitive plural)
busu (dative singular)
busům (dative plural)
bus (accusative singular)
busy (accusative plural)
buse (singular vocative)
busy (plural vocative)
busu (locative singular)
busech (locative plural)
busem (instrumental singular)
busy (instrumental plural)


bus

head

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

bussen (definite singular)
busser (indefinite plural)
bus (indefinite nominative singular)
bussen (definite nominative singular)
busser (indefinite nominative plural)
busserne (definite nominative plural)
bus’ (genitive indefinite singular)
bussens (definite genitive singular)
bussers (genitive indefinite plural)
bussernes (definite genitive plural)

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


bus

(transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan

nl-noun

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

bussen (plural)
busje (diminutive neuter)

→ Caribbean Javanese: bis

→ Papiamentu: bùs

→ Sranan Tongo: bùs

→ Aukan: besi

→ Saramaccan: bési

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


bus

(chiefly historical) one of a variety of early modern firearms, such as flintlock and matchlock guns

(dated, Netherlands) a voluntary sick fund, especially before the introduction of universal health care in the Netherlands in the 1940s

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

Petjo: bus

desc

→ Indonesian: bis (“letterbox, mailbox”)

From Middle Dutch busse, from Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. Doublet of buks (“shotgun”), box, and pyxis.


bus

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Related to etymology 2.


bus

(automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads; by extension, the driver of said vehicle.

(chiefly US, Canada) A coach, a bus used for long travels.

An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.

Part of a MIRV missile, having on-board motors used to deliver the warhead to a target.

(military slang, 1910s–1940s) An aeroplane.

(networking) A network topology with each computer connected to a single cable.

→ Arabic: بَاص (bāṣ)

⇒ Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:)

→ Cantonese: 巴士

→ Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì)

→ German: Bus m

→ Hindi: बस (bas)

→ Irish: bus

desctree

→ Japanese: バス (basu)
→ Hakka: 巴士 (pa-sṳ́)
→ Hokkien: 巴士 (bá-suh)
→ Kavalan: basu
→ Sakizaya: basu

→ Korean: 버스 (beoseu)

→ Kurtöp: བས (bas)

→ Malay: bas

→ Pashto: بس

⇒ Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bus

→ Thai: บัส (bát)

→ Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se)

→ Urdu: بس

→ Welsh: bws

Clipping of omnibus. Formerly often spelt 'bus. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.


bus

Machine guns are the most effective form of ‘election campaigning’, but the occupiers appear to also be bussing in ‘voters’ from the Russian Federation, and ‘registering total strangers in the homes of people forced to flee after the Russian invasion.

2024 March 13, Halya Coynash, “Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin”, in Human Rights in Ukraine. The Information Portal of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group:

The ANC has accused the IFP of bussing in voters from other wards to vote during the recent Newcastle Municipality by-election won by the IFP.

2024 March 14, Clive Ndou, “ANC set to open case against ‘ghost IFP voters’”, in The Witness:

(transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.

But if you ask me to bus my children / I hope the cops take down your name

1966, Phil Ochs, “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”, in Phils Ochs in Concert:

...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.

2008, Ashley R. Holm, Racial Differences in Student Engagement and Attainment: A Study of Topeka High School, 1939--1984, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 23:

(transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.

(intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.

He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.

He was hired to bus tables, but after a few incidents they moved him to the kitchen.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 13:

(transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.

He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

(intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.

en-verb

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

busses (present singular third-person)
buses (present singular third-person)
bussing (participle present)
busing (participle present)
bussed (participle past)
bussed (past)
bused (participle past)
bused (past)


bus

first/second-person singular past historic of boire


bus

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

borrowed from Dutch bus, shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

alternative pronunciations, especially for the word of etymology 1


bus

imitation sound of blowing wind; can be roughly translated as whoosh


bus

head

bus m (genitive singular bus, nominative plural busanna)

bus (genitive singular)
busanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
bus (indefinite singular)
busanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhus (indefinite singular)
a bhusanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bus (definite singular)
na busanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an bhus (definite singular)
na mbusanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbus (definite singular)
don bhus (definite singular)
leis na busanna (definite plural)
bus
bhus
mbus


bus

the abundance/plentifulness of water (in wells, rivers, etc.)

(parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian) -uh


bus

Akin to Italian buca, ultimately from Latin bucca, whence French French bouche.


bus

second-person singular imperative of bies


bus

Irish: pus

Scottish Gaelic: bus

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


bus

first-person singular preterite of baithe


bus

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

pl-noun

bus m animal or m inan (diminutive busik)

bus m animal or (canonical inanimate masculine)
busik (diminutive)
bus (nominative singular)
busy (nominative plural)
busa (genitive singular)
busu (genitive singular)
busów (genitive plural)
busowi (dative singular)
busom (dative plural)
busa (accusative singular)
bus (accusative singular)
busy (accusative plural)
busem (instrumental singular)
busami (instrumental plural)
busie (locative singular)
busach (locative plural)
busie (singular vocative)
busy (plural vocative)

Clipping of autobus. Calque of English bus.


bus

(colloquial) van (motor vehicle used to carry goods or, usually, up to 10 people)


bus

September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15

un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.


bus

head

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

buis (genitive singular)
buis (plural)
busan (plural)


bus

bus m (genitive singular bus, plural busaichean)

bus (genitive singular)
busaichean (plural)
bus
bhus


bus

Shortening of autobús (in Spain) or borrowed from English bus (in Latin America).


bus

bus eller godis

(fairly innocent) mischief (by children), pranking

att ta fast buset

(colloquial, chiefly in the definite "buset") criminals (on the lower rungs of the social ladder)

From the verb busa (“make mischief, prank”).


bus

Borrowed from English bus, clipping of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“to/for all”).


bus

God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.

1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:


bus

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