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.

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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”).[1]

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.
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References
  1. Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144

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