ambu

ambu (Sundanese script ᮃᮙ᮪ᮘᮥ)

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /am.bu/
• Rhymes: -ambu
• Hyphenation: am‧bu

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ambu (Balinese script ᬳᬫ᭄ᬩᬸ)

1. young palm leaf

• → Indonesian: ambu

Borrowed from Old Javanese ambu, ambĕ, ambö (“smell, odour”).

ambu (Balinese script ᬳᬫ᭄ᬩᬸ)

1. (alus singgih) smell, odour

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ambu (Balinese script ᬳᬫ᭄ᬩᬸ)

1. white cloud

• “ambu” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.by/

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• Hyphenation: am‧bu

ambu f (plural ambu's)

1. (informal) clipping of ambulance

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈambu/ [ˈam.bu]
• Rhymes: -ambu
• Syllabification: am‧bu

From Balinese ᬳᬫ᭄ᬩᬸ (ambu).

ambu (plural ambu-ambu)

1. (chiefly dialectal) young palm leaves

From Karo Batak.

ambu (plural ambu-ambu)

1. (dialectal) sculptor

   Synonym: pematung

• “ambu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ambu

1. romanization of ꦲꦩ꧀ꦧꦸ

ambu

1. woman

• Transnewguinea.org, citing both D. Trefry, A comparative study of Kuman and Pawaian (1969) and R. F. Salisbury, The Siane Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, Anthropos (1956; 51:447–480)

Affixed ꦧꦻꦴ (bau, “smell”) +‎ ꦲ- (a-), compare to Malay bau.

• IPA^(key): /am.bu/
• Rhymes: -bu
• Hyphenation: am‧bu

ambu

1. smell, odor

Inherited from Sanskrit अम्बु (ambu, “water”).

ambu n

1. water

Genericized trademark of English ambu bag.^[1] First attested in 1993.

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bu/
• Rhymes: -ambu
• Syllabification: am‧bu

ambu n (indeclinable)

1. (medicine) bag valve mask

   Hypernyms: resuscytator, respirator

   worek ambu ― bag valve mask

   aparat ambu ― bag valve mask device

• ambu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ambú

1. rat