bamboo
English
/bæmˈbu/
noun
Definitions
- A grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the tribe.
- The wood of the bamboo plant as a material or cane.
- A didgeridoo.
- (slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch, Flemish bamboe derived from Portuguese bambu derived from Malay bambu derived from Kannada ಬಂಬು.
Origin
Kannada
ಬಂಬು
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bambooey English
- bamboolike English
- bambu Finnish
- bambuesirippu Finnish
- bambuhai Finnish
- bambukeppi Finnish
- bambukori Finnish
- bambulepakko Finnish
- bamburuoko Finnish
- bambusauva Finnish
- bambusoihtu Finnish
- bambuvapa Finnish
- bambuverso Finnish
- bambusa Latin
- Bambus German
- Bambusameisenwürger German
- Bambuspflanze German
- Bambuswald German
- bambusz Hungarian
- bamboe Dutch, Flemish
- bamboeriet Dutch, Flemish
- bamboes Dutch, Flemish
- bambou French
- бамбу́к Russian
- бамбук Russian
- бамбук, бамбу́к Russian
- bambu Portuguese
- bambus Portuguese
- bambu Swedish
- bambus Polish
- bambus Danish
- bambus Czech
- bambuo Esperanto
- bambus Serbo-Croatian
- бамбус Serbo-Croatian
- bambus Icelandic
- μπαμπού Greek (modern)
- bambu Indonesian
- bambŵ Welsh
- bambù Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- bambus Faroese
- bambu Malay
- bambu Albanian
- ბამბუკი Georgian
- bambus Slovak
- bambus Slovene
- ಬಂಬು Kannada
- ಬಮ್ಬು Kannada
- bambu Guugu Yimidhirr