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• Australian, Mid-Atlantic, New-Zealand, Philippines: /bɐs/
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h3ep-der. Proto-Italic *opnis Latin omnis Latin omnibuslbor. French omnibusbor. English omnibusclip. English bus Clipping of omnibus. Superseded earlier 'bus, where the apostrophe indicated a clipping. The shift in spelling likely reflects the fact that modern speakers no longer perceive this term as a clipping. The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

Back-formation from busboy.

328 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: автобус (avtʼobus) — vehicle
• Afrikaans: bus — vehicle
• Albanian: autobus — vehicle
• Southern Altai: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Amharic: አውቶቡስ (ʾäwtobus) — vehicle
• Western Apache: ndee naigheehí — vehicle
• Arabic: حَافِلَة (ḥāfila) — vehicle
• Arabic: بَاص (bāṣ) — vehicle
• Arabic: أُتُوبِيس (ʔotobīs) — vehicle
• Arabic: أُتُوبُوس (ʔotobūs) — vehicle
• Arabic: اوتوبيس (otobīs) — vehicle
• Arabic: باص (bāṣ) — vehicle
• Arabic: أُتُبيس (utubīs) — vehicle
• Arabic: طوبيس (ṭūbīs) — vehicle
• Armenian: ավտոբուս (avtobus) — vehicle
• Assamese: বাচ (bas) — vehicle
• Asturian: autobús — vehicle
• Azerbaijani: avtobus — vehicle
• Bashkir: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Belarusian: аўто́бус (awtóbus) — vehicle
• Belarusian: бус (bus) — vehicle
• Bengali: বাস (baś) — vehicle
• Breton: bus — vehicle
• Breton: karr-boutin — vehicle
• Bulgarian: автобу́с (avtobús) — vehicle
• Burmese: ဘတ်စ်ကား (bhatcka:) — vehicle
• Buryat: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Carpathian Rusyn: авто́бус (avtóbus) — vehicle
• Catalan: autobús — vehicle
• Chechen: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Chichewa: bási class 9/6 — vehicle
• Chichewa: gálímoto class 9/6 — vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 巴士 — vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (gung1 gung6 hei3 ce1) — vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 公交車 /公交车 (gung1 gaau1 ce1) — vehicle
• Chinese: гунгун чичә (gungun qičə) — vehicle
• Chinese: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Eastern Min Chinese: 公交車 /公交车 (gŭng-gău-chiă) — vehicle
• Hakka Chinese: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (kûng-khiung hi-chhâ) — vehicle
• Hakka Chinese: 公車 /公车 (kûng-chhâ) — vehicle
• Hakka Chinese: 巴士 (pa-sṳ́) — vehicle
• Chinese: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (kong-kiōng khì-chhia) — vehicle
• Chinese: 公車 /公车 (zh-min-nan) — vehicle
• Chinese: 巴士 (bá-suh) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (gōnggòng qìchē) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 巴士 (bāshì) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 公車 /公车 (gōngchē) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 公交車 /公交车 (gōngjiāochē) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 公交 (gōngjiāo) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 公汽 (gōngqì) — vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 客車 /客车 (kèchē) — vehicle
• Wu Chinese: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (1kon-gon-chi-tsho) — vehicle
• Wu Chinese: 公交車 /公交车 (1kon-ciau-tsho) — vehicle
• Xiang Chinese: 公共汽車 /公共汽车 (gong1 gong4 qi4 che1) — vehicle
• Chuvash: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• East Circassian: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• West Circassian: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Crimean Tatar: avtobus — vehicle
• Czech: autobus — vehicle
• Czech: bus — vehicle
• Danish: bus — vehicle
• Central Dusun: baas — vehicle
• Dutch: bus — vehicle
• Dutch: autobus — vehicle
• Dutch: stadsbus — vehicle
• Erzya: бус (bus) — vehicle
• Esperanto: buso — vehicle
• Esperanto: aŭtobuso — vehicle
• Estonian: buss — vehicle
• Estonian: autobuss — vehicle
• Ewe: bɔs — vehicle
• Farefare: lo-katɛ class 7/8 — vehicle
• Faroese: bussur — vehicle
• Finnish: linja-auto — vehicle
• Finnish: bussi — vehicle
• Finnish: dösä — vehicle
• French: autobus — vehicle
• French: bus — vehicle
• Fula: 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤵𞤱𞤢𞤤 — vehicle
• Fula: kaaruwal — vehicle
• Gamilaraay: banbu — vehicle
• Georgian: ავტობუსი (avṭobusi) — vehicle
• German: Bus — vehicle
• Greek: λεωφορείο (leoforeío) — vehicle
• Greenlandic: bussi — vehicle
• Gujarati: બસ (bas) — vehicle
• Hausa: bas — vehicle
• Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס (otobús) — vehicle
• Hindi: बस (bas) — vehicle
• White Hmong: npav — vehicle
• Hungarian: autóbusz — vehicle
• Hungarian: busz — vehicle
• Hunsrik: Onnibus — vehicle
• Hunsrik: Buss — vehicle
• Icelandic: strætisvagn — vehicle
• Icelandic: strætó — vehicle
• Icelandic: langferðabíll — vehicle
• Icelandic: rúta — vehicle
• Ido: omnibuso — vehicle
• Indonesian: bus — vehicle
• Indonesian: bis — vehicle
• Indonesian: otobis — vehicle
• Ingush: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Interlingua: omnibus — vehicle
• Interlingua: autobus — vehicle
• Interlingua: bus — vehicle
• Irish: bus — vehicle
• Italian: autobus — vehicle
• Italian: pullman — vehicle
• Italian: corriera — vehicle
• Japanese: バス (basu) — vehicle
• Japanese: 乗合自動車 (noriai jidōsha) — vehicle
• Kamba: mbasi — vehicle
• Kannada: ಬಸ್ಸು (bassu) — vehicle
• Karelian: avtoubussu — vehicle
• Karelian: autobušši — vehicle
• Karelian: avtobussa — vehicle
• Kashubian: aùtobùs — vehicle
• Kazakh: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Khakas: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Khmer: ឡានឈ្នួល (laan chnuəl) — vehicle
• Khmer: អូតូការ (ʼoutoukaa) — vehicle
• Khmer: អូតូប៊ុស (ʼoutoubuh) — vehicle
• Khmer: ឡានក្រុង (laan krong) — vehicle
• Kikuyu: bathi — vehicle
• Komi-Permyak: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Komi-Zyrian: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Korean: 버스 (beoseu) — vehicle
• Korean: 뻐스 (ppeoseu) — vehicle
• Kumyk: автобус (awtobus) — vehicle
• Central Kurdish: پاس (pas) — vehicle
• Northern Kurdish: bas — vehicle
• Kyrgyz: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Lao: ລົດເມ (lot mē) — vehicle
• Lao: ລົດ (lot) — vehicle
• Lao: ລົດບັດ — vehicle
• Latin: lāophorīum — vehicle
• Latvian: autobuss — vehicle
• Lithuanian: autobusas — vehicle
• Livonian: outōbus — vehicle
• Lü: ᦟᦷᧆᦂᦳᧂᦂᦳᧂᧈᦌᦵᦲᧈ (lodk̇ungk̇ung1soe1) — vehicle
• Lü: ᦟᦷᧆᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodẋaek1) — vehicle
• Lü: ᦟᦷᧆᦑᦸᧉᦟᦱᧅᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodtoa2laakẋaek1) — vehicle
• Lü: ᦟᦷᧆᦣᧇᦃᦶᧅᧈ (lodhabẋaek1) — vehicle
• Luhya: ebasi — vehicle
• Luo: bas — vehicle
• Luxembourgish: Bus — vehicle
• Macanese: bâs — vehicle
• Macedonian: автобу́с (avtobús) — vehicle
• Malay: bas — vehicle
• Malayalam: ബസ് (basŭ) — vehicle
• Maltese: xarabank — vehicle
• Maltese: karozza tal-linja — vehicle
• Maltese: tal-linja — vehicle
• Māori: pahi — vehicle
• Marathi: बस (bas) — vehicle
• Eastern Mari: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Western Mari: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Mòcheno: coriera — vehicle
• Moksha: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Mongolian: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Mongolian: нийтийн машин тэрэг (niitiin mašin tereg) — vehicle
• Mongolian: бас (bas) — vehicle
• Mongolian: ᠠᠦ᠋ᠲ᠋ᠣᠪᠦ᠋ᠰ (aütobüs) — vehicle
• Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠢᠢᠲᠡ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠠᠰᠢᠨ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ (neiite-yin masin terge) — vehicle
• Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠰ (bas) — vehicle
• Moore: biisi — vehicle
• Nahuatl: calmimilolli — vehicle
• Navajo: diné bee naagéhé — vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: buss — vehicle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: buss — vehicle
• Odia: ବସ୍ (bas) — vehicle
• Ojibwe: gichi-odaabaanag — vehicle
• Oromo: motobisii — vehicle
• Ossetian: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Paiwan: basu — vehicle
• Pannonian Rusyn: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Pashto: بس (bas) — vehicle
• Pashto: سروېس (sarwes) — vehicle
• Dari: سَرْویس (sarwēs) — vehicle
• Dari: سَرْوِیس (sarwīs) — vehicle
• Dari: بَس (bas) — vehicle
• Iranian Persian: اُتوبوس (otobus) — vehicle
• Polish: autobus — vehicle
• Polish: autokar — vehicle
• Portuguese: machimbombo — vehicle
• Portuguese: ônibus — vehicle
• Portuguese: autocarro — vehicle
• Portuguese: horário — vehicle
• Punjabi: ਲਾਰੀ (lārī) — vehicle
• Punjabi: ਬੱਸ (bassa) — vehicle
• Romanian: autobuz — vehicle
• Russian: авто́бус (avtóbus) — vehicle
• Inari-Sami: bussi — vehicle
• Kildin-Sami: автобусс (avtobuss) — vehicle
• Lule-Sami: bussa — vehicle
• Skolt-Sami: buss — vehicle
• Sanskrit: बसयान (basayāna) — vehicle
• Scottish Gaelic: bus — vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: ауто́бус — vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: autóbus — vehicle
• Sinhalese: බස් (bas) — vehicle
• Slovak: autobus — vehicle
• Slovene: avtobus — vehicle
• Sotho: bese — vehicle
• Spanish: autobús — vehicle
• Spanish: bus — vehicle
• Spanish: camión — vehicle
• Spanish: camioneta — vehicle
• Spanish: cazadora — vehicle
• Spanish: chiva — vehicle
• Spanish: colectivo — vehicle
• Spanish: guagua — vehicle
• Spanish: micro — vehicle
• Spanish: ómnibus — vehicle
• Spanish: bondi — vehicle
• Spanish: rufa — vehicle
• Spanish: bañadera — vehicle
• Swahili: basi — vehicle
• Swedish: buss — vehicle
• Tagalog: bus — vehicle
• Tajik: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Tamil: பேருந்து (pēruntu) — vehicle
• Tamil: பஸ் (pas) — vehicle
• Tatar: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Telugu: బస్సు (bassu) — vehicle
• Thai: รถบัส (rót-bát) — vehicle
• Thai: รถ (rót) — vehicle
• Thai: บัส (bát) — vehicle
• Thai: รถเมล์ (rót-mee) — vehicle
• Tibetan: སྤྱི་སྤྱོད་རླངས་འཁོར (spyi spyod rlangs 'khor) — vehicle
• Tibetan: འབའ་སེ ('ba' se) — vehicle
• Tibetan: སྤྱི་སྤྱོད་རླང་འཁོར (spyi spyod rlang 'khor) — vehicle
• Tibetan: ཀུང་ཀུང་ཆིའི་ཁྲེ (kung kung chi'i khre) — vehicle
• Tibetan: འགྲུལ་སྐྱེལ་མོ་ཊ ('grul skyel mo ṭa) — vehicle
• Tigrinya: ኣውቶቡስ (ʾawtobus) — vehicle
• Tswana: bese — vehicle
• Tumbuka: basi — vehicle
• Turkish: otobüs — vehicle
• Turkmen: awtobus — vehicle
• Tuvan: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Udmurt: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Ukrainian: авто́бус (avtóbus) — vehicle
• Ukrainian: бус (bus) — vehicle
• Urdu: بَس (bas) — vehicle
• Uyghur: ئاپتوۋۇز (aptowuz) — vehicle
• Uzbek: avtobus — vehicle
• Vietnamese: xe buýt — vehicle
• Vietnamese: ô tô buýt — vehicle
• Vietnamese: buýt — vehicle
• Vilamovian: aojtobüs — vehicle
• Volapük: nibud — vehicle
• Volapük: motoranibud — vehicle
• Welsh: bws — vehicle
• Wolof: trakokin — vehicle
• Wolof: bus — vehicle
• Yakut: автобус (avtobus) — vehicle
• Yakut: оптуобус (optuobus) — vehicle
• Yiddish: אויטאָבוס (oytobus) — vehicle
• Yiddish: בוס (bus) — vehicle
• Zulu: ibhasi — vehicle
• Arabic: نَاقِل (nāqil) — electrical conductor
• Armenian: դող (doġ) — electrical conductor
• Azerbaijani: şin — electrical conductor
• Belarusian: шы́на (šýna) — electrical conductor
• Bulgarian: ши́на (šína) — electrical conductor
• Catalan: bus — electrical conductor
• Chinese Mandarin: 總線 /总线 (zǒngxiàn) — electrical conductor
• Chinese Mandarin: 匯流排 /汇流排 (huìliúpái) — electrical conductor
• Czech: sběrnice — electrical conductor
• Danish: bus — electrical conductor
• Esperanto: buso — electrical conductor
• Finnish: väylä — electrical conductor
• French: bus — electrical conductor
• German: Bus — electrical conductor
• Greek: δίαυλος (díavlos) — electrical conductor
• Hindi: बस (bas) — electrical conductor
• Hungarian: busz — electrical conductor
• Italian: bus — electrical conductor
• Japanese: バス (basù) — electrical conductor
• Korean: 버스 (beoseu) — electrical conductor
• Latvian: kopne — electrical conductor
• Macedonian: магистра́ла (magistrála) — electrical conductor
• Norwegian Bokmål: buss — electrical conductor
• Iranian Persian: گُذَرْگاه (gozargâh) — electrical conductor
• Iranian Persian: باس (bâs) — electrical conductor
• Polish: szyna — electrical conductor
• Polish: magistrala — electrical conductor
• Portuguese: barramento — electrical conductor
• Romanian: magistrală — electrical conductor
• Russian: ши́на (šína) — electrical conductor
• Serbo-Croatian: магистра́ла — electrical conductor
• Serbo-Croatian: magistrála — electrical conductor
• Slovak: zbernica — electrical conductor
• Slovene: vodilo — electrical conductor
• Spanish: bus — electrical conductor
• Swahili: basi — electrical conductor
• Swedish: buss — electrical conductor
• Ukrainian: ши́на (šýna) — electrical conductor
• Urdu: بَس (bas) — electrical conductor
• Dutch: vervoeren met de bus — transport via a motor bus
• Finnish: kuljettaa bussilla — transport via a motor bus
• Finnish: kuljettaa linja-autolla — transport via a motor bus
• Finnish: bussittaa — transport via a motor bus
• Norwegian: busse — transport via a motor bus
• Swedish: bussa — transport via a motor bus
• Dutch: vervoeren met de bus — transport students to school
• Finnish: kuljettaa bussilla — transport students to school
• Finnish: kuljettaa linja-autolla — transport students to school
• Norwegian: busse — transport students to school
• Swedish: bussa — transport students to school
• Vietnamese: xe đưa đón học sinh (buýt) — transport students to school
• Dutch: met de bus reizen — travel by bus
• Finnish: kulkea bussilla — travel by bus
• Finnish: kulkea linja-autolla — travel by bus
• Norwegian: busse — travel by bus
• Swedish: bussa — travel by bus
• Swedish: åka buss — travel by bus
• Dutch: afruimen — clear meal remains from
• Finnish: tyhjentää astia — clear meal remains from
• Finnish: plokata — clear meal remains from
• Hungarian: leszedi az asztalt — clear meal remains from
• Czech: sklízet nádobí — work as a table clearer
• Dutch: afruimen — work as a table clearer
• Finnish: siivota pöytä — work as a table clearer
• Finnish: plokata — work as a table clearer
• Hungarian: leszedőként dolgozik — work as a table clearer
• Hungarian: kisegítő pincérként dolgozik — work as a table clearer