Pandas feed on bamboo grass.
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Bamboo
//bæmˈbu//
Synonyms for "bamboo" (10 found)
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More general
3 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
75 entriesShowing 16 of 75 words.
has context
2 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
9 entriesused for
2 entriesTranslations
227 translations across 132 languages.
Acehnese
1 entries- tring noun (plant)
Acholi
1 entries- koo noun (plant)
Adyghe
1 entries- щэмбар noun (plant)
Albanian
2 entries- bambu noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
Amharic
1 entries- ቀርከሃ noun (plant)
Arabic
4 entries- بامبو noun (plant)
- خيزران noun (plant)
- خَيْزَرَان noun (plant)
- خَيْزُرَان noun (plant)
Armenian
1 entries- բամբուկ noun (plant)
Assamese
1 entries- বাঁহ noun (plant)
Asturian
2 entries- bambú noun (plant)
- bambú noun (wood)
Atayal
1 entries- llkus noun (plant)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bambuk noun (plant)
- hind qamışı noun (plant)
Banjarese
2 entries- buluh noun (plant)
- paring noun (plant)
Bashkir
1 entries- һинд ҡамышы noun (plant)
Belarusian
2 entries- бамбу́кавы adj (made of bamboo)
- бамбу́к noun (plant)
Bengali
1 entries- বাঁশ noun (plant)
Bikol Central
2 entries- butong noun (plant)
- kawayan noun (plant)
Breton
2 entries- bambouz noun (plant)
- bambouz noun (wood)
Bulgarian
3 entries- бамбуков adj (made of bamboo)
- бамбу́к noun (plant)
- бамбу́к noun (wood)
Burmese
1 entries- ဝါး noun (plant)
Catalan
2 entries- bambú noun (plant)
- bambú noun (wood)
Cebuano
1 entries- kawayan noun (plant)
Chepang
1 entries- रीङ् noun (plant)
Chinese
1 entries- 竹仔 noun (plant)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 竹子 noun (plant)
- 竹子 noun (wood)
- 竹材 noun (wood)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- ind qamışı noun (plant)
Czech
3 entries- bambusový adj (made of bamboo)
- bambus noun (plant)
- bambus noun (wood)
Danish
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Dutch
3 entries- bamboe adj (made of bamboo)
- bamboe noun (plant)
- bamboe noun (wood)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 竹 noun (plant)
Esperanto
2 entries- bambua adj (made of bamboo)
- bambuo noun (plant)
Estonian
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Faroese
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Fijian
2 entries- bitu noun (plant)
- kofe noun (plant)
Finnish
2 entries- bambu noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
French
3 entries- de bambou adj (made of bamboo)
- bambou noun (plant)
- bambou noun (wood)
Galician
2 entries- bambú noun (plant)
- bambú noun (wood)
Georgian
1 entries- ბამბუკი noun (plant)
German
3 entries- Bambus noun (plant)
- Bambus noun (wood)
- Bambusrohr noun (wood)
Greek
1 entries- μπαμπού noun (plant)
Hawaiian
2 entries- ʻohe noun (plant)
- ʻohe noun (wood)
Hebrew
4 entries- בַּמְבּוּק noun (plant)
- במבוק noun (wood)
- חִזְרָן noun (plant)
- חִזְרָן noun (wood)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- kawayan noun (plant)
Hindi
2 entries- बाँस noun (plant)
- बांस noun (plant)
Hungarian
2 entries- bambusz adj (made of bamboo)
- bambusz noun (plant)
Icelandic
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Indonesian
3 entries- aur noun (plant)
- bambu noun (plant)
- buluh noun (plant)
Irish
2 entries- bambú noun (plant)
- bambú noun (wood)
Italian
3 entries- di bambù adj (made of bamboo)
- bambù noun (plant)
- bambù noun (wood)
Japanese
4 entries- 竹製の adj (made of bamboo)
- 竹 noun (plant)
- 竹 noun (wood)
- 竹材 noun (wood)
Javanese
4 entries- deling noun (plant)
- deling noun (wood)
- pring noun (plant)
- pring noun (wood)
Jeju
1 entries- 대 noun (plant)
Juba Arabic
1 entries- gana noun (plant)
Kabardian
1 entries- шамбыр noun (plant)
Kannada
1 entries- ಬಿದಿರು noun (plant)
Kapampangan
2 entries- kauayan noun (plant)
- kuwayan noun (plant)
Kazakh
1 entries- бамбук noun (plant)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vāisǖāi noun (rope made from bamboo or cane)
Khmer
1 entries- ឫស្សី noun (plant)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũrangi noun (plant)
Korean
1 entries- 대나무 noun (plant)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бамбук noun (plant)
Lao
1 entries- ໄຜ່ noun (plant)
Latin
1 entries- harundō Indica noun (plant)
Latvian
1 entries- bambuss noun (plant)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bambukas noun (plant)
Lombard
1 entries- bambó noun (plant)
Lü
1 entries- ᦺᦙᧉᦌᦱᧂ noun (plant)
Macedonian
3 entries- бамбусов adj (made of bamboo)
- бамбус noun (plant)
- бамбус noun (wood)
Malay
4 entries- aur noun (wood)
- aur اءور noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
- bambu بمبو noun (plant)
Malayalam
2 entries- മുള noun (plant)
- വെതിർ noun (plant)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠴᡠᠰᡝ noun (plant)
Mon
1 entries- ဒုန် noun (plant)
Mongolian
1 entries- хулс noun (plant)
Māori
2 entries- inanga noun (plant)
- kohe noun (plant)
Navajo
1 entries- lókʼaatsoh noun (plant)
Norman
2 entries- bambou noun (plant)
- bambou noun (wood)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Nupe
1 entries- gusa noun (plant)
Occitan
1 entries- bambó noun (plant)
Old Javanese
1 entries- priṅ noun (plant)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قامش noun (plant)
Paiwan
1 entries- qau noun (plant)
Pashto
1 entries- باڼس noun (plant)
Persian
1 entries- خیزران noun (plant)
Polish
4 entries- bambus adj (made of bamboo)
- bambusowy adj (made of bamboo)
- bambus noun (plant)
- bambus noun (wood)
Portuguese
3 entries- de bambu adj (made of bamboo)
- bambu noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਬਾਂਸ noun (plant)
Rarotongan
1 entries- ko'e noun (plant)
Rohingya
1 entries- bañc noun (plant)
Romanian
2 entries- bambu noun (plant)
- bambus noun (plant)
Russian
4 entries- бамбу́ковый adj (made of bamboo)
- бамбу́к noun (plant)
- бамбу́к noun (wood)
- бамбу́ковая трость noun (wood)
S'gaw Karen
1 entries- ဝၣ် noun (plant)
Salar
1 entries- qamuş noun (plant)
Samoan
1 entries- ʻofe noun (plant)
Sanskrit
1 entries- वंश noun (plant)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bambù noun (plant)
- bambù noun (wood)
- cuilc-Fhrangach noun (plant)
- cuilc-Fhrangach noun (wood)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bàmbus noun (plant)
- tr̀skovača noun (plant)
- ба̀мбус noun (plant)
- тр̀сковача noun (plant)
Siberian Tatar
1 entries- интий ҡамыш noun (plant)
Slovak
1 entries- bambus noun (plant)
Slovene
3 entries- bambusov adj (made of bamboo)
- bambus noun (plant)
- bambus noun (wood)
Spanish
2 entries- bambú noun (plant)
- bambú noun (wood)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- bambusi noun (plant)
Sudanese Arabic
1 entries- قنا noun (plant)
Sundanese
1 entries- awi noun (plant)
Swahili
1 entries- mwanzi noun (plant)
Swedish
2 entries- bambu noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
Sylheti
2 entries- ꠛꠣ noun (plant)
- ꠛꠣꠡ noun (plant)
Tagalog
3 entries- kawayan adj (made of bamboo)
- kawayan noun (plant)
- kawayan noun (wood)
Tajik
1 entries- бамбук noun (plant)
Tamil
2 entries- மூங்கில் noun (plant)
- வேய் noun (plant)
Tarifit
1 entries- aɣanim noun (plant)
Tatar
1 entries- һинд камышы noun (plant)
Telugu
1 entries- వెదురు noun (plant)
Tetum
1 entries- au noun (plant)
Thai
2 entries- ไผ่ noun (plant)
- ไม้ไผ่ noun (wood)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྨྱུག་མ noun (plant)
Tok Pisin
3 entries- mambu adj (made of bamboo)
- mambu noun (plant)
- mambu noun (wood)
Tongan
1 entries- kofe noun (plant)
Turkish
4 entries- Hint kamışı noun (plant)
- Hint kamışı noun (wood)
- bambu noun (plant)
- bambu noun (wood)
Turkmen
2 entries- bambuk noun (plant)
- hindigamşy noun (plant)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бамбу́ковий adj (made of bamboo)
- бамбу́к noun (plant)
Urdu
1 entries- بانس noun (plant)
Uyghur
1 entries- xitay qomushi noun (plant)
Uzbek
1 entries- bambuk noun (plant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tre noun (plant)
Volapük
2 entries- bambud noun (plant)
- lerid noun (plant)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- kawayan noun (plant)
Welsh
2 entries- bambŵ noun (plant)
- bambŵ noun (wood)
White Hmong
1 entries- xyoob noun (plant)
Yoruba
1 entries- ọparun noun (plant)
Zhuang
2 entries- faexcuk noun (plant)
- faexndoek noun (plant)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The bamboo gave but did not break.
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Strictly speaking, bamboo is a kind of grass.
Source: tatoeba (239508)
We received instructions on how to make a bamboo basket.
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