tebu

See also: Tebu

Brunei Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic [Term?] (compare Malay tebu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təbu/
• Hyphenation: te‧bu

Noun

tebu

1. sugar cane (species of grass)

Synonyms

• galagah

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tebu, from Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /təˈbu/ [t̪əˈbu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: te‧bu

Noun

tebu (plural tebu-tebu, first-person possessive tebuku, second-person possessive tebumu, third-person possessive tebunya)

1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

Derived terms

• bertebu-tebu
• bertebu-tebukan
• menebu-nebu
• tebu-tebu

 

Further reading

• “tebu” 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.

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese tĕbu.

Noun

tebu

1. sugar cane

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təbu/
• Rhymes: -əbu, -bu, -u

Noun

tebu (Jawi spelling تبو, plural tebu-tebu, informal 1st possessive tebuku, 2nd possessive tebumu, 3rd possessive tebunya)

1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

Further reading

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

Marshallese

Etymology

From Japanese でぶ (debu).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [tˠeːbˠu], (enunciated) [tˠe pˠu]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠejpˠiw/
• Bender phonemes: {tȩybiw}

Adjective

tebu

1. fat
2. overweight
3. obese

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.bu]

Verb

tebu

1. (intransitive) to jump
2. (intransitive) to rebound, ricochet

Conjugation

Conjugation of tebu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	totebu	fotebu	mitebu
2nd	notebu	nitebu
3rd	Masculine	otebu	itebu, yotebu†
Feminine	motebu
Neuter	itebu
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh