embus

== English == === Etymology === From 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 (proscribed) === Etymology === Inherited from Malay embus, from Classical Malay همبوس (hembus), from Proto-Malayic *həmbus, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qəmbus (“blow hard; snort, pant”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /əmˈbus/ [əmˈbʊs] Rhymes: -us Syllabification: em‧bus === Noun === êmbus blow, gust Synonym: embusan === Verb === êmbus (intransitive) to blow (to produce an air current) Synonym: mengembus (intransitive) to exhale ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “embus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qembus”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI