Where does “bambus” come from?
bambus (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Dutch bamboes, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Tamil வேம்பு, from Kannada ಬಂಬು, from Proto-Dravidian *wēmpu.
bambus (Norwegian Bokmål): bamboo
Ancestry of “bambus”, step by step
Words derived from “bambus”