bus/translations

This page contains translations for bus. See the main entry for more information.

English

Translations

vehicle

Abkhaz: автобус (avtʼobus)
Adyghe: автобус (aavtoobus)
Afrikaans: bus (af)
Albanian: autobus (sq) m
Amharic: አውቶቡስ (ʾäwtobus)
Apache:
Western Apache: ndee naigheehí
Arabic: حَافِلَة‎ f (ḥāfila), بَاص‎ (ar) m (bāṣ), أُتُوبِيس‎ m (ʾotobīs), أُتُوبُوس‎ m (ʾotobūs)
Egyptian Arabic: اوتوبيس‎ m (otobīs)
Hijazi Arabic: باص‎ m (bāṣ), أُتُبيس‎ m (utubīs) (archaic)
Moroccan Arabic: طوبيس‎ (ṭubīs)
Armenian: ավտոբուս (hy) (avtobus)
Assamese: বাচ (bas)
Asturian: autobús m
Azerbaijani: avtobus (az)
Bashkir: автобус (avtobus)
Belarusian: аўто́бус (be) m (aŭtóbus), бус m (bus)
Bengali: বাস (bas)
Breton: bus (br) m, karr-boutin (br) m
Bulgarian: автобу́с (bg) m (avtobús)
Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (my) (bhatcka:)
Buryat: автобус (avtobus)
Catalan: autobús (ca) m
Central Dusun: baas
Chechen: автобус (avtobus)
Chichewa: basi
Chinese:
Cantonese: 巴士 (yue) (baa¹ si^6-2), 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (gung¹ gung⁶ hei³ ce¹) (formal)
Dungan: гунгун чичә (gungun čičə), автобус (avtobus)
Hakka: 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (kûng-khiung hi-chhâ), 公車, 公车 (kûng-chhâ), 巴士 (pa-sṳ́)
Mandarin: 公共汽車／公共汽车 (zh) (gōnggòng qìchē), 巴士 (zh) (bāshì), 公車／公车 (zh) (gōngchē) (Taiwan), 公交車／公交车 (zh) (gōngjiāochē) (mainland China), 公交 (zh) (gōngjiāo) (mainland China), 公汽 (gōngqì) (mainland China), 客車／客车 (zh)
Min Dong: 公交車, 公交车 (gŭng-gău-chiă)
Min Nan: 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (kong-kiōng khì-chhia), 公車 (zh-min-nan), 公车 (kong-chhia) (Taiwan), 巴士 (bá-suh)
Wu: 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (kon gon qi tsho), 公交車, 公交车 (kon jiau tsho)
Xiang: 公共汽車, 公共汽车 (gong¹ gong⁴ qi⁴ che¹)
Chuvash: автобус (avtobus)
Crimean Tatar: avtobus
Czech: autobus (cs) m
Danish: bus (da) c
Dutch: bus (nl) m, autobus (nl) m, stadsbus (nl) m (city bus)
Erzya: автобус (avtobus)
Esperanto: buso (eo), aŭtobuso (eo)
Estonian: buss (et), autobuss (et)
Ewe: bɔs
Faroese: bussur (fo) m
Finnish: linja-auto (fi), bussi (fi)
French: autobus (fr) m, bus (fr) m or f
Fula:
Latin: kaaruwal
Adlam: 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤵𞤱𞤢𞤤‎
Gamilaraay: banbu
Georgian: ავტობუსი (ka) (avṭobusi)
German: Bus (de) m
Greek: λεωφορείο (el) n (leoforeío)
Greenlandic: bussi
Gujarati: બસ (gu) (bas)
Hausa: bas
Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס‎ (he) m (otobús)
Hindi: बस (hi) f (bas)
Hungarian: autóbusz (hu), busz (hu)
Hunsrik: Onnibus m, Buss m
Icelandic: strætisvagn (is) m (city transport), strætó (is) m (informal; city transport), langferðabíll m (long distance), rúta (is) f (informal; long distance)
Ido: omnibuso (io)
Inari Sami: bussi
Indonesian: bus (id), bis (id), otobis
Ingush: автобус (avtobus)
Interlingua: omnibus, autobus, bus
Irish: bus m
Italian: autobus (it) m, pullman (it) m, corriera (it) f
Japanese: バス (ja) (basu), 乗合自動車 (ja) (のりあいじどうしゃ, noriai jidōsha) (rare)
Kabardian: автобус (aavtoobus)
Kamba: mbasi
Kannada: ಬಸ್ಸು (kn) (bassu)
Karelian: avtoubussu
Kashubian: aùtobùs m
Kazakh: автобус (kk) (avtobus)
Khakas: автобус (avtobus)
Khmer: ឡានឈ្នួល (laan chnuəl), អូតូការ (ʼoutoukaa), អូតូប៊ុស (ʼoutoubuh), ឡានក្រុង (laan krong)
Kikuyu: bathi
Komi-Permyak: автобус (avtobus)
Komi-Zyrian: автобус (avtobus)
Korean: 버스 (ko) (beoseu) (South Korea), 뻐스 (ko) (ppeoseu) (North Korea)
Kumyk: автобус (awtobus)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پاس‎ (ku) (pas)
Northern Kurdish: bas (ku)
Kyrgyz: автобус (ky) (avtobus)
Lao: ລົດເມ (lo) (lot mē), ລົດ (lo) (lot), ລົດບັດ (lot bat)
Latin: laophŏrium n
Latvian: autobuss m
Lithuanian: autobusas (lt) m
Livonian: outōbus
Luhya: ebasi
Lule Sami: bussa
Luo: bas
Luxembourgish: Bus (lb) m
Lü: ᦟᦷᧆᦂᦳᧂᦂᦳᧂᧈᦌᦵᦲᧈ (lodk̇ungk̇ung¹soe¹), ᦟᦷᧆᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodẋaek¹), ᦟᦷᧆᦑᦸᧉᦟᦱᧅᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodtoa²laakẋaek¹), ᦟᦷᧆᦣᧇᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodhabẋaek¹)
Macedonian: автобу́с m (avtobús)
Malay: bas (ms)
Malayalam: ബസ് (ml) (basŭ), ബഹുവാഹകം (bahuvāhakaṃ), വൻശകടം (vaṉśakaṭaṃ), പെരുവണ്ടി (peruvaṇṭi)
Maltese: xarabank m, karozza tal-linja m, tal-linja m
Maori: pahi (mi)
Marathi: बस (bas)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: автобус (avtobus)
Western Mari: автобус (avtobus)
Moksha: автобус (avtobus)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: автобус (mn) (avtobus), нийтийн машин тэрэг (niitiin mašin tereg) (China), бас (mn) (bas) (China)
Mongolian: ᠠᠦ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠣᠪᠦ᠋ᠰ (aütobüs), ᠨᠡᠢᠢᠲᠡ ᠶᠢᠨ
ᠮᠠᠰᠢᠨ
ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (nei̯ite-yin masin terge), ᠪᠠᠰ (bas)
Mòcheno: coriera f
Nahuatl: calmimilolli (nah)
Navajo: diné bee naagehé
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buss (no) m
Nynorsk: buss m
Oriya: ବସ୍ (or) (bôs)
Oromo: motobisii
Ossetian: автобус (avtobus)
Paiwan: basu
Pashto: بس‎ (ps) m (bas), سروېس‎ (ps) m (sarwes)
Persian: اتوبوس‎ (fa) (otobus), سرویس‎ (fa) (sarvis) (Dari), بس‎ (fa) (bas) (Dari)
Polish: autobus (pl) m (city transport), autokar (pl) m
Portuguese: machimbombo (pt) m (Angola, Mozambique), ônibus (pt) m (Brazil), autocarro (pt) m (Portugal), horário (pt) (Portugal: Madeira)
Punjabi: ਲਾਰੀ (lārī), ਬੱਸ (bassa)
Romanian: autobuz (ro) n
Russian: авто́бус (ru) m (avtóbus)
Rusyn: авто́бус m (avtóbus)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: автобусс (avtobuss)
Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna)
Scottish Gaelic: bus m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ауто́бус m
Roman: autóbus (sh) m
Sinhalese: බස් (bas)
Skolt Sami: buss
Slovak: autobus (sk) m
Slovene: avtobus (sl) m
Sotho: bese (st)
Spanish: autobús (es) m (Spain), bus (es) m, camión (es) m (Mexico), camioneta (es) f (Guatemala), cazadora (es) f (Costa Rica; archaic), chiva (es) f (Colombia, Panama), colectivo m (Argentina), guagua (es) f (Caribbean Islands, Spain's Canary Islands), micro (es) f (Chile), micro (es) m (Argentina), ómnibus (es) m (Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay), bondi (es) m (Argentina, colloquial), rufa (es) f (Cuba, colloquial)
Swahili: basi (sw)
Swedish: buss (sv) c
Tagalog: bus
Tajik: автобус (tg) (avtobus)
Tamil: பேருந்து (ta) (pēruntu), பஸ் (ta) (pas)
Tatar: автобус (awtobus)
Telugu: బస్సు (te) (bassu)
Thai: รถบัส (rót-bát), รถ (th) (rót), บัส (bát), รถเมล์ (th) (rót-mee)
Tibetan: སྤྱི་སྤྱོད་རླངས་འཁོར (spyi spyod rlangs 'khor), འབའ་སེ ('ba' se), སྤྱི་སྤྱོད་རླང་འཁོར (spyi spyod rlang 'khor), ཀུང་ཀུང་ཆིའི་ཁྲེ (kung kung chi'i khre), འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་མོ་ཊ ('grul skyel mo ṭa)
Tigrinya: ኣውቶቡስ (ʾawtobus)
Tswana: bese
Turkish: otobüs (tr)
Turkmen: awtobus (tk)
Tuvan: автобус (avtobus)
Udmurt: автобус (avtobus)
Ukrainian: авто́бус (uk) m (avtóbus), бус m (bus)
Urdu: بس‎ f (bas)
Uyghur: ئاپتوبۇس‎ (aptobus)
Uzbek: avtobus (uz)
Vietnamese: xe buýt (vi), ô tô buýt (vi), buýt
Vilamovian: aojtobüs m
Volapük: nibud (vo), motoranibud
Welsh: bws (cy) m
White Hmong: npav
Wolof: trakokin, bus
Yakut: автобус (avtobus), оптуобус (optuobus)
Yiddish: ויטאָבוס‎ m (oytobus), בוס‎ m (bus)
Zulu: ibhasi (zu)

electrical conductor

Armenian: դող (hy) (doł)
Bulgarian: ши́на f (šína)
Catalan: bus (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 總線／总线 (zh) (zǒngxiàn), (Taiwan) 匯流排／汇流排 (huìliúpái)
Czech: sběrnice f
Danish: bus (da) c
Esperanto: buso (eo)
Finnish: väylä (fi)
French: bus (fr) m
German: Bus (de) m
Greek: δίαυλος (el) m (díavlos)
Hungarian: busz (hu)
Italian: bus (it) m
Japanese: バス (ja) (basù)
Macedonian: магистра́ла f (magistrála)
Norwegian: buss (no) m
Polish: szyna (pl) f, magistrala (pl) f
Portuguese: barramento (pt) m
Romanian: magistrală (ro) f
Russian: ши́на (ru) f (šína)
Slovak: zbernica
Spanish: bus (es) m
Swahili: basi (sw)
Swedish: buss (sv) c

medical slang: ambulance — see ambulance

Translations

transport via a motor bus

Dutch: vervoeren (nl) met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl)
Finnish: kuljettaa bussilla, kuljettaa linja-autolla, bussittaa (colloquial)
Norwegian: busse (no)
Swedish: bussa (sv)

transport students to school

Dutch: vervoeren (nl) met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl)
Finnish: kuljettaa bussilla, kuljettaa linja-autolla
Norwegian: busse (no)
Swedish: bussa (sv)

travel by bus

Dutch: met (nl) de (nl) bus (nl) reizen (nl)
Finnish: kulkea bussilla, kulkea linja-autolla
Norwegian: busse (no) (rarely used)
Swedish: bussa (sv) (rarely used), åka (sv) buss (sv)

clear meal remains from

Dutch: afruimen (nl)
Finnish: tyhjentää astia, plokata (fi) (slang)
Hungarian: leszedi az asztalt

work as a table clearer

Dutch: afruimen (nl)
Finnish: siivota pöytä, plokata (fi) (slang)
Hungarian: leszedőként dolgozik, kisegítő pincérként dolgozik