tebu

From Proto-Central Naga *a-pwaʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *paʔ (“father”).

• (Chungli) IPA^(key): /tɯ˥.puʔ˥/, [tə˥.puʔ˥]

tebu

1. (Chungli) father

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California, pages 101, 187
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 41
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 119

From Proto-Malayic *təbu (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 Proto-Malayic *təbu (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)

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /təˈbu/ [t̪əˈbu]
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: te‧bu

tebu (plural tebu-tebu)

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

• “tebu”, 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

tebu

1. romanization of ꦠꦼꦧꦸ

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 or tebu²)

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

• "tebu" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Japanese でぶ (debu).

• (phonetics) 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