embus

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ bus. Coined following the mass requisition by the British Army of London buses as troop carriers in World War I.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈbʌs/, /ɪmˈbʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Verb

embus (third-person singular simple present embusses, present participle embussing, simple past and past participle embussed)

1. to put (troops) onto a bus
2. to board a bus

Antonyms

• debus

Anagrams

• sebum

Estonian

Etymology

From embama +‎ -us.

Noun

embus (genitive embuse, partitive embust)

1. hug

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• kallistus

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• hembus (proscribed)

Etymology

Inherited from Malay embus, from Classical Malay همبوس (hembus), from Proto-Malayic *həmbus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qəmbus (“blow hard; snort, pant”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /əmˈbus/ [əmˈbʊs]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: em‧bus

Noun

êmbus

1. blow, gust

   Synonym: embusan

Verb

êmbus

1. (intransitive) to blow (to produce an air current)

   Synonym: mengembus

2. (intransitive) to exhale

Derived terms

• berembus (“to blow; to exhale; aspirated”)
• embusan (“blow, gust; exhalation; aspiration”)
• embuskan (“to blow; to exhale; to aspirate”)
• nirembus (“unaspirated”)
• pengembus (“blower”)
• pengembusan (“blowing; exhalation; aspiration”)

Further reading

• “embus” 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.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qembus”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI