debu

From English debut, from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeud- (“to beat, push”).

• Hyphenation: de‧bu

debu

1. a traditional coming-of-age party which celebrates a young woman's eighteenth birthday
2. (bingo) the number eighteen

From Malay debu, from Proto-Malayic *dəbu.

• IPA^(key): /dəˈbu/
• Hyphenation: dêbu
• Rhymes: -bu, -u

dêbu (first-person possessive debuku, second-person possessive debumu, third-person possessive debunya)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)
2. (geology) silt: a particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

   Synonym: silt

• abu
• duli

• “debu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

debu

1. Rōmaji transcription of でぶ
2. Rōmaji transcription of デブ

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

From Proto-Malayic *dəbu.

debu (Jawi spelling دبو‎, plural debu-debu, informal 1st possessive debuku, 2nd possessive debumu, 3rd possessive debunya)

1. dust (fine, dry air particles)
2. ash (solid remains of a fire)

• abu / ابو‎
• duli / دولي‎
• lebu / لبو‎

debu (Jawi spelling دبو‎)

1. (Classical Malay) I (personal pronoun)
2. (classical) me (direct object of a verb)
3. (classical) me (object of a preposition)
4. (classical) me (indirect object of a verb)
5. (classical) my (belonging to me)

• aku / اکو‎
• saya / ساي‎