tebu
See also: Tebu
Brunei Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *təbu (compare Malay tebu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təbu/
- Hyphenation: te‧bu
Noun
tebu
- sugar cane (species of grass)
Synonyms
Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *təbu (compare Malay tebu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təbu/
- Hyphenation: te‧bu
Noun
tebu
- sugar cane (species of grass)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay tebu, from Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /təˈbu/ [t̪əˈbu]
- Rhymes: -u
- Syllabification: te‧bu
Noun
tebu (plural tebu-tebu)
- sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)
Derived terms
- bertebu-tebu
- bertebu-tebukan
- menebu-nebu
- tebu-tebu
Further reading
- “tebu”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Javanese
Romanization
tebu
- romanization of ꦠꦼꦧꦸ
Malay
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /təbu/
- Rhymes: -əbu, -bu, -u
Noun
tebu (Jawi spelling تبو, plural tebu-tebu)
- sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)
Further reading
- “tebu”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Marshallese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (phonetics) IPA(key): [tˠeːbˠu], (enunciated) [tˠe pˠu]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /tˠejpˠiw/
- Bender phonemes: {tȩybiw}
Adjective
tebu
References
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈte.bu]
Verb
tebu
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | totebu | fotebu | mitebu | |
| 2nd person | notebu | nitebu | ||
| 3rd person |
masculine | otebu | itebu yotebu (archaic) | |
| feminine | motebu | |||
| neuter | itebu | |||
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh