bui

Abbreviation of English Bongili with u as a placeholder.

bui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bongili.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bongili terms

From Proto-Chamic *babuy, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babuy, from Proto-Austronesian *babuy.

bui

1. pig (mammal of genus Sus)

Of unknown origin, with no known cognates in Germanic. The word may be related to Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “blast of wind, breath”); see that entry for cognates.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bœy̯/

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• Hyphenation: bui
• Rhymes: -œy̯

bui f (plural buien, diminutive buitje n)

1. shower (rain), or generally a bout (of bad weather such as snow)
2. mood, episode
3. (dated) gust, current of wind

• Afrikaans: bui
• → German: Bö
• → Norwegian Bokmål: byge
• → Papiamentu: beis
• →? Saterland Frisian: Böije
• → West Frisian: bui

From Dutch boei (“buoy, shackle”), from Middle Dutch boeye, from Old French boie (“fetter, chain, clog”), from Latin boia (“(leather) collar, band, fetter”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbui̯]
• Hyphenation: bui

bui (plural bui-bui)

1. buoy
2. (colloquial) prison

   Synonym: penjara

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

bui

1. masculine plural of buio

bui m

1. plural of buio

• ubi

bui

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶい
2. Rōmaji transcription of ブイ

Akin to Italian bollire and French bouillir, from Latin bulla.

bui

1. to boil

bui

1. nonstandard spelling of buì

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• boí

bui (conjunct ·bui)

1. third-person singular preterite absolute/conjunct of at·tá

bui f

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of bu

Borrowed from Taiwanese Hokkien 襪 / 袜 (boe̍h).

bui

1. footwear, socks

• Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2001) Pazih Dictionary (巴宰語詞典) (in Chinese), Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN

bui

1. eye

Borrowed from Dutch boei.

bui

1. bracelet
2. fetter, bond

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]

bui • (盃, 𠸟)

1. (obsolete) only
   • Cổ Châu Pháp Vân Phật bản hạnh ngữ lục (古珠法雲佛本行語録), pg. 2a

     盃柴丘陀羅燒翁修定綽衛茹。

     Bui thầy Khâu Đà La theo ông Tu Định rước về nhà.

     Only Master Khâu Đà La followed Tu Định and was brought back to his house.

bui

1. black snake

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Brisbane Animal Words.