Etymology

bambou

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French bambou ← Portuguese bambu ← Malay bambu
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The story

  1. Kannada · derived fromಬಮ್ಬು
  2. Malay · derived frombambu
  3. Portuguese · derived frombambu
  4. French · borrowed frombambou
  5. English todaybambou

From French bambou, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಮ್ಬು (bambu).

Words from the same roots

Portuguesebambu all →

Malaybambu all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.