# bahu
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

#### Coordinate terms

* saas

#### Derived terms

* saas-bahu

### Anagrams

* Buha, habu

## Balinese
### Romanization

bahu
* Romanization of ᬩᬳᬸ
* Romanization of ᬩᬵᬳᬸ

## Banjarese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bahu.

### Noun

bahu
* (anatomy) shoulder

### References

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

## Basque
### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

bahu
* 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
* (anatomy) shoulder

### References

* "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.

## Extremaduran
### Etymology

From Late Latin bassus.

### Adjective

bahu
* low

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* bahoe (pre-1947)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbä.hu/
* Hyphenation: ba‧hu

### Etymology 1

* 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”).

#### Noun

bahu (plural bahu-bahu)
* (anatomy) shoulder

##### Synonyms

* pundak

##### Derived terms

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

#### Noun

bahu (plural bahu-bahu)
* village chief assistant, kepala dusun (Java)
* (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).

##### Related terms

* baureksa

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bahu
* many

##### Derived terms

* bahu guna
* bahu pada

##### Related terms

* bausastra
* bausuku
* bauwarna

### Further reading

* “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.

### Anagrams

* ubah (“to change”)
* buah (“fruit”)

## Javanese
### Romanization

bahu
* 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: /bahu/
* Rhymes: -ahu, -hu, -u
* Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Noun

bahu (Jawi spelling باهو, plural bahu-bahu, informal 1st possessive bahuku, 2nd possessive bahumu, 3rd possessive bahunya)
* (anatomy) shoulder (joint between arm and torso)
* shoulder (part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: bahu

### Further reading

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

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ba.hu/
* Rhymes: -hu
* Homophone: bāhu
* Hyphenation: ba‧hu

### Adjective

bahu
* many, much
* frequent

#### Derived terms

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

#### Descendants

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

### 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

* 𑀩𑀳𑀼 (Brahmi script)
* बहु (Devanagari script)
* বহু (Bengali script)
* බහු (Sinhalese script)
* ဗဟု or ၿႁု (Burmese script)
* พหุ or พะหุ (Thai script)
* ᨻᩉᩩ (Tai Tham script)
* ພຫຸ or ພະຫຸ (Lao script)
* ពហុ (Khmer script)
* 𑄝𑄦𑄪 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

### Adjective

bahu
* much, many