bamboo
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *wē
Proto-Dravidian *mpu
Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu
Tamil வேம்பு (vēmpu)bor.
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Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu
Kannada ಬಂಬು (bambu)bor.
Malay bambubor.
Portuguese bambubor.
Dutch bamboebor.
English bamboo
Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಂಬು (bambu), variant form of ಬೇವು (bēvu). Cognate with Malayalam വേപ്പ് (vēppŭ), Telugu వేప (vēpa), from Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu (“neem”).
Inflected forms:
form: bamboos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bambou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bambu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bambou
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bambu
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bamboos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bambooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bambooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bambooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bambou
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bambu
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of the fast-growing grasses of the Bambusoideae subfamily, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, the late Hsia and the Shang were considerably warmer, possibly comparable to Hang-chou today, an area where bamboo proliferates.
gloss: Wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used as a vessel for liquids, or as a tool for corporal punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream.
gloss: A didgeridoo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Made of the wood of the bamboo.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To flog with a bamboo cane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.
gloss: To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.
gloss: To penetrate sexually.
pos: verb
tags: India
slang
examples: If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.
One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […], saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.
Derived words: African alpine bamboo
African bamboo
Andean bamboo
arrow bamboo
bamboo antshrike
bamboo baksheesh
bamboo ceiling
bamboo clam
bamboo coral
Bamboo Curtain
bamboo curtain
bamboo diplomacy
bambooey
bamboo fern
bamboo grass
bamboo hair
bambooish
bamboo lemur
bamboolike
bamboo man
bamboo palm
bamboo partridge
bamboo rat
bamboo shark
bamboo shoot
bamboo torture
bamboo vine
bambooware
bamboo wife
Bengal bamboo
Bindura bamboo
black bamboo
broadleaf bamboo
Buddha belly bamboo
Calcutta bamboo
cherry-merry-bamboo
chino bamboo
common bamboo
dragon bamboo
Drakensberg bamboo
female bamboo
fishpole bamboo
giant bamboo
giant thorny bamboo
giant timber bamboo
golden bamboo
greater bamboo lemur
heavenly bamboo
hedge bamboo
henon bamboo
Indian thorny bamboo
Kuril bamboo
lucky bamboo
Makino bamboo
male bamboo
marble bamboo
Mexican bamboo
Mexican weeping bamboo
moso bamboo
narihira bamboo
Oldham’s bamboo
painted bamboo
sacred bamboo
savannah bamboo
shamboo
solid bamboo
spineless Indian bamboo
spiny bamboo
stripe bamboo
sweet bamboo
thorny bamboo Bambusa blumeana)
tortoise-shell bamboo
Veitch's bamboo
water bamboo
white bamboo
yellow bamboo
yellow-groove bamboo
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