bahu

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

bahu (plural bahus)

1. (India) A daughter-in-law or sister-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married.

• saas

• saas-bahu

• Buha, habu

Borrowed from Malay bahu.

bahu

1. (anatomy) shoulder

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

• IPA^(key): (Southern) /bau̯/, [bau̯]
• IPA^(key): (Northern) /bahu/, [ba.ɦu]

bahu

1. Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, conditional indicative form of izan.

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

bahu

1. (anatomy) shoulder

• "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.

From Late Latin bassus.

bahu

1. low

• bahoe (pre-1947)

• IPA^(key): /bahu/, [ˈba.hu]
• Hyphenation: ba‧hu

• 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 bau (ꦧꦲꦸ, “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”).

bahu (plural bahu-bahu, first-person possessive bahuku, second-person possessive bahumu, third-person possessive bahunya)

1. (anatomy) shoulder

• pundak

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

bahu (plural bahu-bahu)

1. village chief assistant, kepala dusun (Java)
2. (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).

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

bahu

1. many

• bahu guna
• bahu pada

• “bahu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• ubah (“to change”)
• buah (“fruit”)

From Old Javanese bahu.

bahu

1. shoulder

From Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *baHźʰúṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰaHȷ́ʰúš, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰús (“arm”). Doublet of baju.

• IPA^(key): /bahu/
• Rhymes: -ahu, -hu, -u

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bahu (Jawi spelling باهو‎, plural bahu-bahu, informal 1st possessive bahuku, 2nd possessive bahumu, 3rd possessive bahunya)

1. (anatomy) shoulder (joint between arm and torso)
2. shoulder (part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency)

• Indonesian: bahu

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

From Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

bahu

1. shoulder

Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

bahu

1. much, many

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahuq.

bahu

1. smell; odor