bubut.
lathe
Meaning & usage
lathe
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦧꦸꦠ꧀ (bubut).
to pluck, to pull out, to extract
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay bubut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butbut, from Proto-Austronesian *buCbuC (“pull up, pluck”).
stay; brace
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay bubut (“throat halyard”).
to operate a lathe
to shape with a lathe
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦸꦧꦸꦠ꧀ (bubut).
coucal (any bird of the genus Centropus in the cuckoo family Cuculidae)
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Malay bubut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *butbut (“owl”).
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