buse

• IPA^(key): /byz/

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From Old French buison, buson, from Latin būteō, būteōnem.

buse f (plural buses)

1. hawk or buzzard (Genus Buteo)
2. (colloquial) idiot, fool
3. (Belgium) fail (fail of an exam, in school)

• (fail at an exam) pète

• buser

buse

1. first-person singular present indicative of buser
2. third-person singular present indicative of buser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of buser
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of buser
5. second-person singular imperative of buser

Probably from Old French busel, itself from Latin būcina with a change of suffix to -el. Or from a shortening of a hypothetical earlier *bu(i)sene. Cf. the related buisine, as well as the borrowed buccine.

buse f (plural buses)

1. nozzle
2. pipe, conduit

• bues

• “buse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Ottoman Turkish بوسه‎ (buse), from Persian بوسه‎ (buse, “kiss”).

buse

1. (dated) kiss, smooch

• öpücük

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “buse”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 924