butuh

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butuq, from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq.

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

butuh (Balinese script ᬩᬸᬢᬸᬄ)

1. testicle, scrotum

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

From Proto-Malayic *butuh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butuq, from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq.

• IPA^(key): /bu.tʊh/

butuh

1. penis

• boetoeh (1901–1947)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbutuh/ [ˈbu.t̪ʊh]
• Rhymes: -utuh
• Syllabification: bu‧tuh

Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦠꦸꦃ (butuh) (either via Sundanese butuh or directly).

butuh

1. to need

   Synonym: perlu

   Aku butuh kamu. ― I need you.

   • 2018 November 1, “Lulusan Teknik Butuh Sertifikat Insinyur [Engineering Graduates Need Engineer Certificate]”, in Suara Merdeka‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 December 2018:

     Bagus Irawan menambahkan di era serbacanggih ini lulusan teknik memang butuh memperkuat keahlian. Sebab, zaman sudah jauh berubah yang ditandai kehadiran aplikasi robotik, kecerdasan buatan, otomatisasi program digital hingga teknologi data.

     Bagus Irawan added that in this sophisticated era, engineering graduates really need to strengthen their expertise. This is because times have changed a lot, marked by the presence of robotic applications, artificial intelligence, digital program automation to data technology.

Use tend to be among speakers in areas where Javanese is also spoken as a home language e.g. in Jakarta, Bandung and Jogjakarta; avoided by Malay Indonesians in Sumatra and Riau Islands who have the knowledge of the other meaning of butuh in their home Malay dialects, see etymology 2.

Inherited from Malay butuh, from Proto-Malayic *butuh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butuq (“testicle”), from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq.

butuh (plural butuh-butuh)

1. (vulgar, now dialectal) penis

   Synonym: kontol

• “butuh” 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.

• tubuh

butuh

1. romanization of ꦧꦸꦠꦸꦃ

butuh

1. (transitive) to pull out

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 199

• (Sambas, colloquial Malaysia) butoh
• (colloquial) uto
• (colloquial) buto

From Proto-Malayic *butuh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butuq, from Proto-Austronesian *buCuq.

• (Johor-Selangor, Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bu.toh/
• (Bahasa Baku) IPA^(key): /bu.tʊh/
• Rhymes: -utoh, -toh, -oh
• Rhymes: -uh

butuh (Jawi spelling بوتوه, plural butuh-butuh)

1. (vulgar) penis
   • [2006 February 24, Badruddin Othman, “Bimbang penggunaan bahasa Melayu terhakis [Worried usage of Malay language is eroded]”, in Utusan Malaysia‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 December 2018:

     Dalam rancangan Eksotika Malaysia keluaran Astro misalnya, sudah dua kali saya mendengar perkataan butuh atau membutuhkan digunakan untuk membawa maksud 'memerlukan' seperti yang digunakan di Indonesia, walhal di Malaysia ia sering digunakan untuk maksud 'alat kelamin lelaki'.

     In the Exotic Malaysia television program produced by Astro for example, I have twice heard the word "butuh" or "membutuhkan" used for the meaning 'to need' as used in Indonesia, whereas in Malaysia the term is often used for the meaning 'male genitalia'.]

The word is part of false friends between Standard Malay and Indonesian due to shared etymology. The Indonesian usage can be seen in butuh in Etymology 1.

• pelir
• kotek
• konek
• zakar (formal)

• kepala butuh

• Indonesian: butuh

• “butuh” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• tubuh

Cognate with Javanese ꦧꦸꦠꦸꦃ (butuh), Indonesian butuh, Old Javanese butuh (“in trouble, in difficulties, embarrassed”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

butuh (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮒᮥᮂ)

1. to need