imbu

imbu (feminine imbue, masculine plural imbus, feminine plural imbues) (de)

1. full (of)
2. imbued (with)

• “imbu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• umbu, ambu
• imbú, umbú, ambú (1931-prescribed spelling, now misspelling)

Borrowed from Old Tupi umbu. Cognate with Spanish ombú.

• Rhymes: -u

imbu m (plural imbus)

1. a large evergreen tree native to the Pampa of South America, Phytolacca dioica

   Synonyms: imbuzeiro, umbuzeiro

2. Brazil plum (Spondias tuberosa)

• “imbu”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “imbu”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “imbu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *mbʊ́ (“mosquito”), potentially from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-búne (“mosquito”).

imbu class 9 (plural imbu)

1. mosquito

• W. G. Anderson (1897), An Introductory Grammar of the Sena Language‎^[1], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, pages 12, 50