embus
English
Etymology
em- + bus. Coined following the mass requisition by the British Army of London buses as troop carriers in World War I.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛmˈbʌs/, /ɪmˈbʌs/
- Rhymes: -ʌs
Verb
embus (third-person singular simple present embusses, present participle embussing, simple past and past participle embussed)
- to put (troops) onto a bus
- to board a bus
Antonyms
- debus
Anagrams
- sebum
Estonian
Etymology
From embama + -us.
Noun
embus (genitive embuse, partitive embust)
- hug
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- kallistus
Indonesian
Alternative forms
- hembus (nonstandard)
Etymology
Inherited from Malay embus, from Classical Malay همبوس (hembus), همبوس (embus), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qembus (“blow hard; snort, pant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əmˈbʊs]
- Hyphenation: em‧bus
Verb
embus
- to blow (air).
Derived terms
- berembus
- embusan
- mengembus
- mengembuskan
- pengembus
Further reading
- “embus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.