bubuk

Inherited from Malay bubuk, from Classical Malay بوبوق (bubuk), from Proto-Malayic *bubuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukbuk (“weevil that infests wood, bamboo, and rice; dust produced by the boring of this insect”).

• The sense of powder is a semantic loan from Javanese bubuk (“powder”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbubuk/, [ˈbu.bʊʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧buk

bubuk (first-person possessive bubukku, second-person possessive bubukmu, third-person possessive bubuknya)

1. weevil
2. powder; powdered substance

   Synonym: serbuk

• “bubuk” 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.

Inherited from Old Javanese bubuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukbuk (“weevil that infests wood, bamboo, and rice; dust produced by the boring of this insect”).

bubuk

1. powder

   Synonym: abuk

2. weevil; termite-like insect

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “bubuk”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *bubuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukbuk (“weevil that infests wood, bamboo, and rice; dust produced by the boring of this insect”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbubuk/, [ˈbu.buʔ]
• Rhymes: -ubok, -bok, -ok

bubuk (Jawi spelling بوبوق, plural bubuk-bubuk, informal 1st possessive bubukku, 2nd possessive bubukmu, 3rd possessive bubuknya)

1. weevil
2. woodworm

• Indonesian: bubuk

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

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bukbuk (“weevil that infests wood, bamboo, and rice; dust produced by the boring of this insect”).

bubuk

1. weevil

• Javanese: bubuk

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