bahu

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

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.

• saas

• saas-bahu

• Buha, habu

bahu

1. Romanization of ᬩᬳᬸ
2. Romanization of ᬩᬵᬳᬸ

Borrowed from Malay bahu.

bahu

1. (anatomy) shoulder

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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

bahu

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

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

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

bahu

1. (anatomy) shoulder

• "Besemah" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Late Latin bassus.

bahu

1. low

• bahoe (pre-1947)

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

• Inherited from Malay bahu, from Classical Malay bahu, from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *baHźʰúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaHȷ́ʰúš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”). Doublet of baju.
• Semantic loan from Javanese ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu, “arm, village assistant”), from Old Javanese bāhu (“arm”), from the same Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu). See also Javanese bahudendha (“powerful”), from Old Javanese bāhudaṇḍa (“arm; assistant, guard, protection”, literally “long arm, arm-staff”), from Sanskrit बाहुदण्ड (bāhudaṇḍa, “long arm, arm-staff”).

bahu (plural bahu-bahu, first-person possessive bahuku, second-person possessive bahumu, third-person possessive bahunya)

1. (anatomy) shoulder

• pundak

• membahu (“to shoulder, to carry over one's shoulder”)
• bahu-membahu (“to be together, to help each other”)

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).

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

bahu

1. many

• bahu guna
• bahu pada

• “bahu” 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.

• ubah (“to change”)
• buah (“fruit”)

bahu

1. Romanization of ꦧꦲꦸ

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

• IPA^(key): /bahu/
• Rhymes: -ahu, -hu, -u

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bahu (Jawi spelling باهو, plural bahu-bahu, informal 1st possessive bahuku, 2nd possessive bahumu, 3rd possessive bahunya)

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

• Indonesian: bahu

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

Borrowed from Sanskrit बहु (bahu, “a lot”).

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

bahu

1. many, much
2. frequent

• Javanese: ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu)
• → Balinese: ᬩᬳᬸ (bahu)
• → Indonesian: bau (learned)

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

Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

bahu

1. much, many