bahu

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See also: bāhu, bāhu-, and bahu'

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Balinese

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Romanization

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bahu

  1. Romanization of ᬩᬳᬸ
  2. Romanization of ᬩᬵᬳᬸ

Banjarese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Malay bahu.

Noun

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bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

References

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Basque

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Pronunciation

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

Verb

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bahu

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

Usage notes

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

Central Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

Noun

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bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

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Extremaduran

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Etymology

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From Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

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bahu

  1. low

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Noun

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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).
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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bahu

  1. many
Derived terms
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Javanese

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Romanization

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bahu

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦲꦸ

Malay

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Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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)

Descendants

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  • Indonesian: bahu

Further reading

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Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit बहु (bahu, a lot).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bahu

  1. many, much
  2. frequent

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

Adjective

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bahu

  1. much, many

Declension

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