buah

buah

1. Romanization of ᬩᬸᬯᬄ

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

• IPA^(key): /buah/

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• Hyphenation: bu‧ah

buah

1. fruit (food)
2. fruit (part of plant)

• anak buah
• bebuah
• buah hati
• buah mulut
• buah pala
• buah pikiran
• buah pinggang
• buah tangan

buah

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

From Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

buah

1. fruit (food)
2. fruit (part of plant)

From Malay buah, from Old Malay vuaḥ, from Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

• The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”). Compare with Tagalog bunga with both fruit and result senses, while Malay and subsequently Indonesian bunga means flower.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuʷah]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bu‧ah

buah (plural buah-buahan, first-person possessive buahku, second-person possessive buahmu, third-person possessive buahnya)

1. (literally) fruit:
   1. a product of plant growth useful to man or animals
   2. a sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see next sense), even if it does not develop from a floral ovary
   3. a product of fertilization in a plant
2. (figuratively) result, outcome.

   Synonym: hasil

3. origin, subject, topic, theme.

   Synonyms: bahan, pokok

buah

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and having volume, as well as abstract things.

• “buah” 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 Proto-Malayic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq. First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684 AD, as Old Malay [script needed] (vuaḥ).

• The sense of result and outcome are probably semantic loan from Sanskrit फल (phala, “result, yield, consequence”, literally “fruit”). Compare with Tagalog bunga with both fruit and result senses, while Malay bunga means flower.

• IPA^(key): /buah/
• Rhymes: -uah, -wah, -ah

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buah (Jawi spelling بواه, plural buah-buah or buah-buahan, informal 1st possessive buahku, 2nd possessive buahmu, 3rd possessive buahnya)

1. fruit (part of plant)
2. fruit (food)
3. any small and/or roundish holdable object resembling fruit or otherwise

   buah catur: chess piece

   buah dadu: dice

   buah tasbih: beads on a rosary or the like

• berbuah
• buahkan
• dibuahkan
• membuah
• membuahkan
• buah baju
• buah bibir
• buah dada
• buah fikiran
• buah hati
• buah mulut
• buah pala
• buah belunu
• buah pinggang
• buah tangan

• Indonesian: buah

buah (singular sebuah)

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “بوه boewah”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 66
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “بوه buwah”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 96
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “buah”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 154-5

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

buah

1. Romanization of ᮘᮥᮃᮂ