gabus

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡa.bʊs/
  • Rhymes: -bʊs
  • Hyphenation: ga‧bus

Etymology 1

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Noun

gabus

  1. (botany) cork
    1. the dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water
      1. the phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material

Verb

gabus (active menggabus, passive digabus)

  1. (transitive) to sharpen with a cork
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Seekor gabus.

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Noun

gabus

  1. snakehead murrel (Channa striata)
    Synonyms: aruan, rating, tobang
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Further reading

Lithuanian

Etymology

Derived from góbti (to wrap, cover, seize, snatch); see there for more.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

gabùs m (feminine gabì, neuter gabù) stress pattern 4

  1. gifted, clever, skillful
  2. (dialectal) greedy

Declension

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “gabus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 160