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4-letter words (2 found)

BAHU,HABU,

3-letter words (2 found)

BAH,HUB,

2-letter words (5 found)

AB,AH,BA,HA,UH,

You can make 9 words from bahu according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bahu

bahu abhu bhau hbau ahbu habu bauh abuh buah ubah aubh uabh bhua hbua buha ubha huba uhba ahub haub auhb uahb huab uhab

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Definitions and meaning of bahu

bahu

Etymology

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

Noun

bahu (plural bahus)

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

Coordinate terms

  • saas

Derived terms

  • saas-bahu

Anagrams

  • Buha, habu

Balinese

Romanization

bahu

  1. Romanization of ᬩᬳᬸ
  2. Romanization of ᬩᬵᬳᬸ

Banjarese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bahu.

Noun

bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

References

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

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /bahu/ [ba.hu]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /bau/ [ba.u]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) Rhymes: -ahu
  • (Southern) Rhymes: -au
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Verb

bahu

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

Usage notes

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

Central Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu).

Noun

bahu

  1. (anatomy) shoulder

References

  • "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.

Extremaduran

Etymology

From Late Latin bassus.

Adjective

bahu

  1. low

Indonesian

Alternative forms

  • bahoe (pre-1947)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbä.hu/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Etymology 1

  • Inherited 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 ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu, “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”).

Noun

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

  1. (anatomy) shoulder
Synonyms
  • pundak
Derived terms
  • membahu (“to shoulder, to carry over one's shoulder”)
  • bahu-membahu (“to be together, to help each other”)

Noun

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).
Related terms

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese bahu (“many, much, frequent”), from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

Noun

bahu

  1. many
Derived terms
  • bahu guna
  • bahu pada
Related terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • ubah (“to change”)
  • buah (“fruit”)

Javanese

Romanization

bahu

  1. Romanization of ꦧꦲꦸ

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Descendants

  • Indonesian: bahu

Further reading

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit बहु (bahu, “a lot”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba.hu/
  • Rhymes: -hu
  • Homophone: bāhu
  • Hyphenation: ba‧hu

Adjective

bahu

  1. many, much
  2. frequent

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦧꦲꦸ (bahu)
  • → Balinese: ᬩᬳᬸ (bahu)
  • → Indonesian: bau (learned)

Further reading

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit बहु (bahu).

Adjective

bahu

  1. much, many

Declension

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahuq.

Noun

bahu

  1. smell; odor

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