Noun: bamboo
| Singular | bamboo |
| Plural | bamboos |
Sample Sentences
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However, the late Hsia and the Shang were considerably warmer, possibly comparable to Hang-chou today, an area where bamboo proliferates. [2011, Ralph D. Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 490:]
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It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village and one girl about ten or twelve years old, who had just brought a bamboo full of water from the river, threw it down with a cry of horror and alarm the moment she caught sight of me, turned around and jumped into the stream. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 102:]
Nouns inflected like bamboo
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Dravidian *wē
3. Proto-Dravidian *mpu
4. Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu
5. Tamil வேம்பு (vēmpu)bor.
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7. Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu
8. Kannada ಬಂಬು (bambu)bor.
9. Malay bambubor.
10. Portuguese bambubor.
11. Dutch bamboebor.
12. English bamboo
13. Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಂಬು (bambu), variant form of ಬೇವು (bēvu). Cognate with Malayalam വേപ്പ് (vēppŭ), Telugu వేప (vēpa), from Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu (“neem”). See: Dutch Nouns '
bamboe', Portuguese Nouns '
bambu'.
Verbs referencing "bamboo"
Finnish Nouns
bambu.