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bus.

bus (a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Bahasa Indonesia language

Meaning & usage

noun/bʊs//bɪs//bəs//bɘs/
  1. bus (a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Dutch bus, shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

noun/bʊs//bɪs//bəs//bɘs/
  1. imitation sound of blowing wind; can be roughly translated as whoosh

Where this word comes from

Onomatopoeic, related to embus or hembus.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.