different between bamboo vs papyrus

English

Alternative forms

• bambu (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ???? (bambu). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæm?bu/

Noun

bamboo (countable and uncountable, plural bamboos)

1. A fast-growing grass of the Poaceae family, characterised by its woody, hollow, round, straight, jointed stem, all of which are in the Bambuseae tribe.
2. (uncountable) The wood of the bamboo plant as a material for building, furniture, etc.
3. (countable) A stick, rod, pole, or cane of bamboo, especially one used for corporal punishment.
4. (slang) A didgeridoo.
5. (slang) A member of the British military or British East India Company who spent so much time in Indonesia, India, or Malaysia that they never went back home.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: bambu
• ? Finnish: bambu
• ? Greek: ??????? (bampoú)
• ? Guugu Yimidhirr: bambu
• ? Russian: ??????? (bambúk) (or Dutch bamboe or French bambou) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Welsh: bamb?

Translations

Adjective

bamboo (not comparable)

1. Made of the wood of the bamboo.

Translations

Verb

bamboo (third-person singular simple present bamboos, present participle bambooing, simple past and past participle bambooed)

1. (transitive) To flog with a bamboo cane.
   • 1880, Herbert Giles (translator), Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, London: Thomas de la Rue & Co., Vol. II, p. 18, footnote, [1]

     […] the beadle is punished by fine, and sometimes bambooed, if robberies are too frequent within his jurisdiction, or if he fails to secure the person of any malefactor particularly wanted by his superior officers.

2. (transitive) To paint (furniture, etc.) to give it the appearance of bamboo.
   • 1994, Penny Swift, The Complete Book of Paint Techniques, New Holland, p. 67, [2]

     The craze for bambooing furniture and accessories was one of many popular paint techniques in the 18th century and early Victorian era.

3. (India, slang) To penetrate sexually.
   • 2006, Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games, Penguin, 2008, [3]

     If you're just a girl from Lucknow, with no fluid cash, you'll be just one more among thousands going from producer to producer by auto-rickshaw, and every photographer who agrees to take a picture for your portfolio will want to introduce you to his bed upstairs in the loft. And what you'll get out of all this in the end is a lot of bambooing and maybe a dance or two in his videos.

   • 2013, Nandini Bhattacharya, Hindi Cinema: Repeating the Subject, London: Routledge, Chapter 5, [4]

     One scene of attachment and intimacy shows Vijay careening into their shared apartment dead drunk and insulting a praying Ajay for his devotion to the household god, Hanuman […] , saying that instead of being rescued Ajay will be "bamboo-ed," a popular slang for anal penetration.

Gooniyandi

Noun

bamboo

1. didgeridoo

Mandinka

Noun

bamboo

1. crocodile

English

Etymology

From Middle English papirus, borrowed from Latin pap?rus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros), of unknown origin. Doublet of paper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??pa???s/
• Rhymes: -a???s

Noun

papyrus (usually uncountable, plural papyri or papyruses)

1. (usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
2. (usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
3. (countable) A scroll or document written on papyrus.

Related terms

• papyrology
• papyrologist

Translations

Czech

Alternative forms

• papyros

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pap?rus]
• Hyphenation: pa?py?rus

Noun

papyrus m inan

1. papyrus

Declension

Further reading

• papyrus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• papyrus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Noun

papyrus

1. papyrus (material and document)

Declension

Derived terms

• papyrologi
• papyrologia
• papyruskaisla (papyrus plant)
• papyrusvene

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pap?rus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros). Doublet of papier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.?ys/

Noun

papyrus m (plural papyrus or papyri)

1. papyrus

Further reading

• “papyrus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• pap?rum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa?py?.rus/, [pä?py???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa?pi.rus/, [p??pi??us]

Noun

pap?rus m or f (genitive pap?r?); second declension

1. papyrus (plant)
2. a garment made from papyrus
3. paper made from papyrus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• papyrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• papyrus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• papyrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• papyrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• papyrus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• papyrus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

papyrus m (definite singular papyrusen, indefinite plural papyrusar or papyrar, definite plural papyrusane or papyrane)

1. (usually uncountable) papyrus (plant; writing material)
2. (countable) papyrus (scroll or document)

References

• “papyrus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.