minibus

See also: minibús and -minibus

Englisch

A school minibus

A minibus taxi in South Africa

Etymology

mini- +‎ bus. In the political sense, probably a back-formation from omnibus.

Nomen

minibus (plural minibuses or minibusses)

1. A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.
2. (South Africa) A-sixteen seater vehicle used as a taxi. A kombi.
   • 2006, Weekend Argus, May 13/14, p.6

     Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.

3. (historical) A small four-wheeled carriage.
4. (US politics) A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.
   • 2020 July 25, Danielle Haynes, “House passes 4-bill spending package”, in UPI:

     The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.

Translations

a small bus

• Arabic: مِيكْرُوبَاص m (mīkrūbāṣ), مِينِيبَاص m (mīnībāṣ)
• Armenian: միկրոավտոբուս (mikroavtobus)
• Azerbaijani: mikroavtobus
• Belarusian: мікрааўто́бус m (mikraaŭtóbus)
• Bulgarian: минибу́с m (minibús)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 小巴 (siu² baa¹)

  Mandarin: 麵包車／面包车 (zh) (miànbāochē), 面包车 (zh) (miànbāochē), 小巴 (xiǎobā)

• Czech: minibus m
• Danish: minibus c
• Dutch: busje (nl) n
• Estonian: väikebuss
• Finnish: minibussi
• French: minibus (fr) m
• Georgian: მიკროავტობუსი (miḳroavṭobusi)
• German: Kleinbus (de) m, Minibus (de) m
• Hebrew: מִינִיבּוּס (he) (mínibus)
• Indonesian: bus mini
• Japanese: マイクロバス (maikurobasu)
• Korean: 승합차 (seunghapcha), 미니버스 (minibeoseu), 마이크로버스 (maikeurobeoseu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: mikroautobuss m
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• Lithuanian: mikroautobusas m
• Macedonian: минибус m (minibus)
• Malay: bas mini
• Norman: minibeusse f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: minibuss m

  Nynorsk: minibuss m

• Persian: مینی بوس (fa) (mini-bus)
• Polish: mikrobus (pl) m
• Portuguese: micro-ônibus m, microônibus m
• Romanian: microbuz (ro) n, maxi-taxi (ro) n
• Russian: микроавто́бус (ru) m (mikroavtóbus), маршру́тка (ru) f (maršrútka) (marshrutka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: минибус m

  Roman: minibus (sh) m

• Slovak: mikrobus m
• Slovene: minibus m
• Spanish: microbús (es) m, minibús m
• Turkish: minibüs (tr)
• Ukrainian: мікроавто́бус m (mikroavtóbus)
• Vietnamese: xe buýt mini

See also

• jitney
• minivan

Anagrams

• minisub

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Czech

Nomen

1. minibus

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English minibus. Equivalent to mini- +‎ bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.niˌbʏs/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ni‧bus

Nomen

minibus m (plural minibussen, diminutive minibusje n)

1. minibus, minivan

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French

Etymology

mini- +‎ bus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni.bys/

Nomen

minibus m (plural minibus)

1. minibus

Further reading

• “minibus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] English mini- +‎ bus

Nomen

minibus m (uncountable)

1. minibus (small bus)