debus

See also: debús

English

Etymology

After debark (“to disembark”).

Verb

debus (third-person singular simple present debusses, present participle debussing, simple past and past participle debussed)

1. (chiefly military) To get off a bus.
   • 1990, K C Paval, "Indian Army After Independence", New Delhi: Lancer.

     The leading battalion […] arrived in the vicinity of Kushtia around 1400 hours and debussed.

Antonyms

• embus

Translations

to get off a bus

• Greek: αποβιβάζομαι (el) (apovivázomai)

Anagrams

• bused, dubes

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dəˈbʊs/
• Hyphenation: dê‧bus
• Rhymes: -bʊs, -ʊs, -s

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Noun

dêbus (plural debus-debus, first-person possessive debusku, second-person possessive debusmu, third-person possessive debusnya)

1. whistle, rustle, flap

Derived terms

• berdebus

 

Adjective

dêbus

1. empty (of a fishing net)

Etymology 2

From Malay dabus, from Persian دبوس (dabus, “club, mace; sceptre”).

Noun

dêbus (plural debus-debus, first-person possessive debusku, second-person possessive debusmu, third-person possessive debusnya)

1. martial arts performance in which the players stab themselves with sharp objects, eat shards of glass, cut their tongues, roll over barbed wire, etc.

Alternative forms

• dabus

Further reading

• “debus” 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.