| Word form | buka |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | a little, a piece of |
| Czech translation | trochu, kousek |
| Hungarian translation | kevés; keveset, egy kevés(sé), egy kicsit, kissé; darab |
| Grammatical info | quantifier |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Greek L2 [9] (900–1300) |
| Early Romani reconstruction | *buká ‘mouthful’ |
| Boretzky & Igla's etymology | 333: bukka ‘piece’ < perhaps Greek μπουκιά cf. 38: buka ‘bite, mouthful; cheek; face’ < Romanian bucă ‘Backe’, bucată ‘bite’ |
| Mānušs et al. etymology | no entry |
| Vekerdi's etymology | 39: < Greek μπουκα; in the meaning ‘mouthful’ contamined by Romanian bucă |