bui

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

• buien
• buienradar
• buiig
• donderbui
• driftbui
• hagelbui
• hoosbui
• huilbui
• onweersbui
• piekbui
• regenbui
• sneeuwbui
• stormbui
• stortbui
• windbui

• 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 (first-person possessive buiku, second-person possessive buimu, third-person possessive buinya)

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), Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics.

bui

1. eye

Borrowed from Dutch boei.

bui

1. bracelet
2. fetter, bond

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓuj˧˧]

bui • (盃, 𠸟)

1. (obsolete) only

bui

1. black snake

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