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English
Etymology
After debark (“to disembark”).
Verb
debus (third-person singular simple present debusses, present participle debussing, simple past and past participle debussed)
- (chiefly military) To get off a bus.
- 1990, K C Paval, "Indian Army After Independence", New Delhi: Lancer.
- The leading battalion arrived in the vicinity of Kushtia around 1400 hours and debussed.
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic
Noun
dêbus (plural debus-debus, first-person possessive debusku, second-person possessive debusmu, third-person possessive debusnya)
- whistle, rustle, flap
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Adjective
dêbus
- empty (of a fishing net)
Etymology 2
From Malay dabus, from Persian دبوس (dabus, “club, mace; sceptre”).
Noun
dêbus (plural debus-debus, first-person possessive debusku, second-person possessive debusmu, third-person possessive debusnya)
- martial arts performance in which the players stab themselves with sharp objects, eat shards of glass, cut their tongues, roll over barbed wire, etc.
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References
- ^ Mohammad Khosh Haikal Azad (2018) “Historical Cultural Linkages between Iran and Southeast Asia: Entered Persian Vocabularies in the Malay Language”, in Journal of Cultural Relation (in Persian), pages 117-144
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