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• (Bernheze) First attested as in de Bus in 1678. Derived from a dialectal variant of bos (“rising forest”).
• (Meierijstad) First attested as hoeve genaemt in de bus in 1777. Derived from a dialectal variant of bos (“rising forest”).
• IPA(key): /bʏs/
• Hyphenation: Bus
• Rhymes: -ʏs
• Homophone: bus

Bus n

1. a hamlet in Bernheze, North Brabant, Netherlands
2. a hamlet in Meierijstad, North Brabant, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Omnibus, with influence from English bus.

• IPA(key): /bʊs/
• Rhymes: -ʊs

The computer bus may also be pronounced as in English.

Bus m (strong, genitive Busses, plural Busse)

1. bus (public transport)
2. (computing) bus (on a computer mainboard)

• Autobus
• Schulbus
• Überlandbus (“intercity bus”)
• Datenbus
• Omnibus
• Busfahrt
• Busbahnhof
• Busfahrer
• “Bus”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)
• “Bus” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bus” in Duden online
• Bus on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

From Omnibus, with influence from English bus.

• IPA(key): /bus/

Bus m (plural Bussen)

1. bus