bahu

See also: bāhu, bāhu-, and bahu'

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बहू (bahū) / Urdu بَہُو (bahū), from Sanskrit वधू (vadhū́).

Noun

bahu (plural bahus)

  1. (South Asia) A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Anagrams

Balinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.hu/
  • Rhymes: -ahu
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Javanese bahu (a lot), from Sanskrit बहु (bahu, a lot).

Adjective

bahu (Balinese script ᬩᬳᬸ)

  1. many, much
Derived terms
  • bahu danda
  • bahu mantra
  • bahu sastra
  • bahu sisia
  • bahu wangsa
  • bahu wida

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Javanese bāhu (arm), from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu, arm)

Noun

bahu (Balinese script ᬩᬳᬸ or ᬩᬵᬳᬸ)

  1. arm
  2. hand
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Adjective

bahu (Balinese script ᬩᬳᬸ)

  1. alternative form of bau

Further reading

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

Banjarese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bahu.

Noun

bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

References

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /bahu/ [ba.hu]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /bau/ [ba.u]
  • Rhymes: -ahu, -u
  • Rhymes: -au, -u
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Verb

bahu

  1. Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, conditional indicative form of izan.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Central Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

Noun

bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

References

Extremaduran

Etymology

From Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bahu

  1. low

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbä.hu/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Etymology 1

Noun

bahu (plural bahu-bahu)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
    Synonym: pundak
Derived terms

Noun

bahu (plural bahu-bahu)

  1. village chief assistant, kepala dusun (Java)
  2. (music, figurative) edge of musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet, such as gong (the shoulder of the instrument)

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese bahu (many, much, frequent), from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

Noun

bahu

  1. many
Derived terms
  • bahu guna
  • bahu pada

Further reading

Anagrams

Javanese

Romanization

bahu

  1. romanization of ꦧꦲꦸ

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *baHźʰúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaHȷ́ʰúš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (arm). Doublet of baju.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bahu/
  • Rhymes: -ahu, -hu, -u
  • Audio (Malaysia):(file)

Noun

bahu (Jawi spelling باهو, plural bahu-bahu)

  1. (anatomy) shoulder (joint between arm and torso)
  2. shoulder (part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency)

Descendants

  • Indonesian: bahu

Further reading

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit बहु (bahu, a lot).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.hu/
  • Rhymes: -hu
  • Homophone: bāhu
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Adjective

bahu

  1. many, much
  2. frequent

Derived terms

  • bahubheda
  • bahubhārya
  • bahubhāwa
  • bahulocana
  • bahumantrasiddhi
  • bahupustaka
  • bahurajaswala
  • bahusañcara
  • bahuwarṇa
  • bahuwaṅśa
  • bahuweda
  • bahuwidha
  • bahuwīrya
  • bahuśiṣya
  • bahuśāstra

Descendants

Further reading

  • "bahu" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

Adjective

bahu

  1. much, many

Declension