ibu

Clipping of ibuprofen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.bjuː/

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ibu (countable and uncountable, plural ibus)

1. (uncommon) ibuprofen

• IPA^(key): [ibuʔ]
• Hyphenation: i‧bu

ibu

1. aunt; aunty

From Malay ibu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪbu]

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ibu (plural para ibu, ibu-ibu, first-person possessive ibuku, second-person possessive ibumu, third-person possessive ibunya)

1. mother
   1. a (human) female who has given birth to a baby, who parents an adopted or fostered child, or who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.

      Synonyms: biyung, bunda, emak, embok, ibu, ibunda, ibung, indung, mak, mama, mami, mandeh, mbok, umi

   2. something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
2. madam: A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
3. you (very formal)

• bu more often meaning "ma'am".

• “ibu” 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.

ibu

1. Romanization of ꦲꦶꦧꦸ

ibu

1. ash

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ibu (Jawi spelling ايبو, plural ibu-ibu, informal 1st possessive ibuku, 2nd possessive ibumu, 3rd possessive ibunya)

1. mother

• bu (shortened)
• ibu kunci (“lock”)
• ibu pejabat (“headquarters”)

• > Indonesian: ibu (inherited)
• → Iban: ibu

• emak

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

• ipu

From Proto-Germanic *jabai. Compare oba, whence modern German ob.

• IPA^(key): /ibu/

ibu

1. if

See oba.

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Unknown, probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *(ʔ)boʔ (“mother”) (compare Temiar buk (“mother”), Jehai baboʔ (“woman”), Vietnamese vợ (“wife”), and Mon ၝောံ (bɜ̀ʔ)).

ibu

1. mother

   Synonyms: babu, bibi, ibu, iduṅ, ina, inaṅ, induṅ, janmayoni, mātā, matuh, rena

• > Javanese: ꦲꦶꦧꦸ (ibu) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬳᬶᬩᬸ (ibu)
• >? Malay: ibu
  • > Indonesian: ibu (inherited)
  • → Iban: ibu

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

From Proto-Philippine *ʀibu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀibu.

ibu

1. thousand

ibu

1. urine

From i- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú

• ubú

• IPA^(key): /ī.bú/

ibú

1. considerable depth and expanse
2. (by extension) any deep body of water; sea, ocean

   Synonyms: ibú-omi, òkun

• Ẹjalónibú, Ẹjalónibúṣọlá (Yoruba name meaning "The fish comes from the deep; The fish comes from the deep and is honorable")
• Oníbú-ọrẹ (“A nickname for God”)
• Oníbú-ọlá (“a nickname for several water deities”)

• odò (“river”)
• omi (“water, river”)

Unclear if it is related to Etymology 1

• ubú

• IPA^(key): /ī.bú/

ibú

1. a fall; (especially) accidental; the act of accidentally falling

• ṣubú (“to fall”)

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú

• ùbú, ẹ̀bú

• IPA^(key): /ì.bú/

ìbú

1. breadth, width

   Synonyms: ẹ̀bú, ibò

2. horizontalness, horizontality

ìbú

1. horizontal

   Synonym: oníbùú

   Antonyms: òró, ìró

   ìlà ìbú

   Horizontal line

• ètò oníbùú (“syntagmatism”)
• àgbélébùú (“cross”)
• ìbúḿbú (“across”)
• dábùú (“across”)
• àgbàdébùú

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bú (“to insult, yell, roar”)

• ùbú

• IPA^(key): /ì.bú/

ìbú

1. the act of roaring; (especially) of animals

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bù (“to scoop, to chip”)

• ùbù

• IPA^(key): /ì.bù/

ìbù

1. the act of chipping of or from some substance
2. crack, split

From ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ bù (“to be dusty”)

• ùbu

• IPA^(key): /ì.bū/

ìbu

1. dustiness