| Word form | phus |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Czech translation | sláma |
| Hungarian translation | szalma |
| Grammatical info | noun, masculine |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Indo-Aryan [9] (-1900–-500) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *phus M |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 239: < Pali bhusa- < OIA busa- ‘Stroh, Spreu’; cf. Hindi bhus, bhūsā |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | 108: < OIA busa ‘chopped straw; chaff; husks’; cf. Hindi and Nepali bhus, bhūs M |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 132: < Sanskrit *bhuṣa [Turner] |
| Turner's etymology | 9271 |
| Other etymologies | Kuiper (1948: 98): Sanskrit busa- N ‘chaff’, buśa-, buṣa, būṣa, Pali bhusa- ‘chaff of corn’, [...] Romani phus may be derived from the Proto-Mundic root *wα-ḍα |
| Mayrhofer's etymology | II, 229–30: busa- N ‘Spreu, Abfall’: origin “bleibt ungesichert” |