# bubu
## English
### Noun

bubu (plural bubus)
* Alternative form of boubou (“type of robe”)

## Albanian
### Interjection

bubu
* alas

## Asturian
### Noun

bubu m (plural bubos)
* grain

## Aukan
### Etymology

Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”). Compare Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”) and Sranan Tongo bubu (“bogeyman”).

### Noun

bubu
* jaguar, Panthera onca

### References

* ↑ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428

## Guugu Yimidhirr
### Noun

bubu
* land, dirt, place

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

### Noun

bubu
* fish trap

## Kavalan
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

### Noun

bubu
* conical bamboo basket, a fish trap

### References

* Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006) Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)‎, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bubu/
* Rhymes: -ubu, -bu, -u

### Noun

bubu (Jawi spelling بوبو, plural bubu-bubu, informal 1st possessive bubuku, 2nd possessive bubumu, 3rd possessive bubunya)
* fish trap

#### Synonyms

* lukah

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: bubu

### References

* "bubu" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
* “bubu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

bubu
* accusative singular of buba

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Probably from Kongo m-bùubu (“dread, something dreadful, darkness”). Compare Aukan bubu (“jaguar”) and Saramaccan bubú (“jaguar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈbu/

### Noun

bubu
* bogeyman, bugbear, monster

### References

* ↑ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 428

## Sundanese
### Alternative forms

* boeboe (dated, pre-1947)

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bubu/
* Rhymes: -ubu, -bu, -u

### Noun

bubu or ᮘᮥᮘᮥ • (bubu)
* fish trap

#### Derived terms

* naheun bubu pahareup-hareup (“to borrow money from each other, lit. "to set traps opposite each other"”)

### References

* 'BOEBOE', in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

bubu class V (plural mabubu class VI)
* dumb person
* mute person

## Taroko
### Noun

bubu
* mother

## Ternate
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.bu]

#### Noun

bubu
* a fin or flipper of a fish

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.bu]

#### Verb

bubu
* (transitive) to drill, bore a hole

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.bu]

#### Verb

bubu
* (transitive) to put out in the rain

#### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tetum
### Verb

bubu
* to swell

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

Possibly from Hiri Motu tubu (“grandparent”)

### Noun

bubu
* grandparent
* any elderly relative