Bambus

See also: bambus

German

Etymology

From early modern Dutch bamboes (contemporary bamboe), from Portuguese bambus, plural of bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಮ್ಬು (bambu).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Bambus m (strong, genitive Bambusses, plural Bambusse)

bamboo

Declension

Declension of Bambus [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bambus	die	Bambusse
genitive	eines	des	Bambusses	der	Bambusse
dative	einem	dem	Bambus, Bambusse¹	den	Bambussen
accusative	einen	den	Bambus	die	Bambusse

¹Now rare, see notes.

Descendants

→ Czech: bambus
→ Danish: bambus
→ Faroese: bambus
→ Hungarian: bambusz
→ Icelandic: bambus
→ Latvian: bambuss
→ Macedonian: бамбус (bambus)
→ Polish: bambus
→ Romanian: bambus
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: бамбус
- Latin script: bambus
→ Slovak: bambus
→ Slovene: bambus

Further reading

“Bambus” in Duden online
“Bambus” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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