embus

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

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

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

• debus

• sebum

From embama +‎ -us.

embus (genitive embuse, partitive embust)

1. hug

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• kallistus

• hembus (nonstandard)

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

• IPA^(key): [əmˈbʊs]
• Hyphenation: em‧bus

embus

1. to blow (air).

• “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.