tebu

From Proto-Malayic [Term?] (compare Malay tebu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu).

• IPA^(key): /təbu/
• Hyphenation: te‧bu

tebu

1. sugar cane (species of grass)

• galagah

From Malay tebu, from Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh, from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

• IPA^(key): [təˈbu]
• Hyphenation: te‧bu

tebu (plural tebu-tebu, first-person possessive tebuku, second-person possessive tebumu, third-person possessive tebunya)

1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

• “tebu” 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.

From Old Javanese tĕbu.

tebu

1. sugar cane

From Proto-Malayic *təbu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təbuh (compare Chamorro tupu, Fijian dovu), from Proto-Austronesian *təbuS.

• IPA^(key): /təbu/
• Rhymes: -əbu, -bu, -u

tebu (Jawi spelling تبو, plural tebu-tebu, informal 1st possessive tebuku, 2nd possessive tebumu, 3rd possessive tebunya)

1. sugar cane (species of grass whose sap is a source of sugar)

• “tebu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Japanese でぶ (debu).

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [tˠeːbˠu], (enunciated) [tˠe pˠu]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /tˠejpˠiw/
• Bender phonemes: {tȩybiw}

tebu

1. fat
2. overweight
3. obese

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• IPA^(key): [ˈte.bu]

tebu

1. (intransitive) to jump
2. (intransitive) to rebound, ricochet

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh