Bamboo

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late 16th century: from Dutch bamboes, based on Malay mambu .

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Borrowed from Dutch bamboe, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಂಬು(bambu). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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bamboo (n.)

type of giant grass common in the tropics, 1590s, from Dutch bamboe and/or Portuguese bambu, earlier mambu (16c.), probably from Malay (Austronesian) samambu, though some suspect this is itself an imported word, perhaps from Kanarese (Dravidian). Bamboo curtain in reference to communist China (based on iron curtain) is from 1949.