ibu

Clipping of ibuprofen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.bjuː/

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ibu (countable and uncountable, plural ibus)

1. (uncommon) ibuprofen

• IPA^(key): [ibuʔ]
• Hyphenation: i‧bu

ibu

1. aunt; aunty

From Malay ibu.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈibu/ [ˈi.bu]

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• Rhymes: -ibu
• Syllabification: i‧bu

ibu (plural ibu-ibu or para ibu)

1. mother

   Synonyms: ibunda, emak

2. mother (something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind)

   ibu kota ― capital (literally, “mother city”)

3. madam: A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
4. you (polite, to a woman)

• “ibu” 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.

ibu

1. Rōmaji transcription of イブ
2. Rōmaji transcription of いぶ

ibu

1. romanization of ꦲꦶꦧꦸ

ibu

1. ash

• IPA^(key): /ˈibu/ [ˈi.bu]

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ibu (Jawi spelling ايبو, plural ibu-ibu)

1. mother

• bu (shortened)
• ibu kunci (“lock”)
• ibu pejabat (“headquarters”)

• > Indonesian: ibu (inherited)
• → Iban: ibu

• emak

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

• ipu

From Proto-Germanic *jabai. Compare oba, whence modern German ob.

• IPA^(key): /ibu/

ibu

1. if

See oba.

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).

ibu

1. mother

   Synonyms: babu, bibi, ibu, iduṅ, ina, inaṅ, induṅ, janmayoni, mātā, matuh, rena

• > Javanese: ꦲꦶꦧꦸ (ibu) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬳᬶᬩᬸ (ibu)
• >? Malay: ibu
  • > Indonesian: ibu (inherited)
  • → Iban: ibu

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

From Malay ribu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔibu/ [ʔɪˈβu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: i‧bu

ibu (Sulat Sūg spelling اِبُ)

1. thousand

ibu

1. urine

From i- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú

• ubú

• IPA^(key): /ī.bú/

ibú

1. considerable depth and expanse
2. (by extension) any deep body of water; sea, ocean

   Synonyms: ibú-omi, òkun

• Ẹjalónibú, Ẹjalónibúṣọlá (Yoruba name meaning "The fish comes from the deep; The fish comes from the deep and is honorable")
• Oníbú-ọrẹ (“A nickname for God”)
• Oníbú-ọlá (“a nickname for several water deities”)

• odò (“river”)
• omi (“water, river”)

Unclear if it is related to Etymology 1

• ubú

• IPA^(key): /ī.bú/

ibú

1. a fall; (especially) accidental; the act of accidentally falling

• ṣubú (“to fall”)

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú

• ùbú, ẹ̀bú

• IPA^(key): /ì.bú/

ìbú

1. breadth, width

   Synonyms: ẹ̀bú, ibò

2. horizontalness, horizontality

ìbú

1. horizontal

   Synonym: oníbùú

   Antonyms: òró, ìró

   ìlà ìbú

   Horizontal line

• ètò oníbùú (“syntagmatism”)
• àgbélébùú (“cross”)
• ìbúḿbú (“across”)
• dábùú (“across”)
• àgbàdébùú

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú (“to insult, yell, roar”)

• ùbú

• IPA^(key): /ì.bú/

ìbú

1. the act of roaring; (especially) of animals

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bù (“to scoop, to chip”)

• ùbù

• IPA^(key): /ì.bù/

ìbù

1. the act of chipping of or from some substance
2. crack, split

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bù (“to be dusty”)

• ùbu

• IPA^(key): /ì.bū/

ìbu

1. dustiness