debu

From English debut, from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeud- (“to beat, push”).

• Hyphenation: de‧bu

debu

1. a traditional coming-of-age party which celebrates a young woman's eighteenth birthday
2. (bingo) the number eighteen

From Malay debu, from Proto-Malayic *dəbu.

debu (plural debu-debu, first-person possessive debuku, second-person possessive debumu, third-person possessive debunya)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

• abu
• duli

debu

1. Rōmaji transcription of でぶ
2. Rōmaji transcription of デブ

• IPA^(key): /dəbu/
• Rhymes: -əbu, -bu, -u

From Proto-Malayic *dəbu.

debu (Jawi spelling دبو‎, plural debu-debu, informal first-person possessive debuku, informal second-person possessive debumu, third-person possessive debunya)

1. dust (fine, dry air particles)

• abu / ابو‎
• duli / دولي‎
• lebu / لبو‎

debu (Jawi spelling دبو)

1. (classical) I (personal pronoun)
2. (classical) me (direct object of a verb)
3. (classical) me (object of a preposition)
4. (classical) me (indirect object of a verb)
5. (classical) my (belonging to me)

• aku / اکو‎
• saya / ساي‎