Bube

Bube

1. A Bantu language spoken by the Bubi people.

   Synonym: Fernandian

• Bub (southern)
• Bub' (less common)

From Middle High German buobe (“knave”), from Old High German Buobo, a male name of unknown meaning, though probably formed as a reduplication of a syllable *bo which may be abstracted from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”), based on the original meaning of "male child", reinforced by sound-symbolism.^[1] Cognate with Dutch boef (“villain”). Probably also related to boy; see there for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːbə/ (Germany)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥uːbɛ/, [-b̥ɛ] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland)
• Hyphenation: Bu‧be

Bube m (weak, genitive Buben, plural Buben, diminutive Bübchen n or Büblein n, feminine (rare) Bübin)

1. knave; jack (playing card)
2. (regional, Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland) boy; lad
3. (regional, northern and central Germany) rogue; villain; naughty boy

• In northern and central Germany, the word is now used almost exclusively for the playing card. The southern sense “boy” is understood but not used. The older regional sense “rogue, villain” has become chiefly restricted to the diminutive Bübchen or to fixed combinations and compounds (böser Bube, Bubenstreich, Spitzbube, etc.).

• (jack): Bauer
• (boy): Junge, Knabe
• (rogue): Gauner; Schlingel; Schuft

• (by gender) Mädchen, Mädel
• (by age) Mann, Greis

• → Esperanto: bubo
• → Hungarian: bubi
• → Ido: bubo

• “Bube” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bube” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bube” in Duden online
• Bube on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Bube” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.