Bambus

See also: bambus

German

Etymology

From early modern Dutch bamboes (contemporary bamboe), from Portuguese bambus, plural of bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಮ್ಬು (bambu).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Bambus m (strong, genitive Bambusses, plural Bambusse)

1. bamboo

Declension

Declension of Bambus [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bambus	die	Bambusse
genitive	eines	des	Bambusses	der	Bambusse
dative	einem	dem	Bambus, Bambusse1	den	Bambussen
accusative	einen	den	Bambus	die	Bambusse

¹Now rare, see notes.

Descendants

• → Czech: bambus
• → Danish: bambus
• → Faroese: bambus
• → Hungarian: bambusz
• → Icelandic: bambus
• → Latvian: bambuss
• → Macedonian: бамбус (bambus)
• → Polish: bambus
• → Romanian: bambus
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: бамбус
  • Latin script: bambus
• → Slovak: bambus
• → Slovene: bambus

Further reading

• “Bambus” in Duden online
• “Bambus” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache