Borrowing from language__Malay. Unlike many language__Malay loanwords in language__Philippine languages which diffused from Brunei, probably in connection with the trading arc that linked Borneo with the Moluccas through Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, this word is not attested anywhere in the southern Philippines. Its distribution suggests instead that it was introduced by peninsular Malay traders whose base of operations was the entrepot at Manila Bay first established by the Fukienese, and jointly maintained by the Spanish during the three and one half centuries of the Manila Galleon (1565-1815).
| WMP | ||
| Tagalog | búro | pickled or salted |
| Cebuano | búru | cover something all over with salt, sugar, flour (as meat); serve, eat fish with lots of salt; small dried fish with more salt than the ordinary |
| Acehnese | budhéen | kind of preserve of small fish in brine (much eaten in Daya) |
| Malay (Kedah, Kelantan) | tempayan budu | pickle-tub |
| budu | anchovies pickled in brine after being dried and partially decayed | |
| Malay | tempayan budu | pickle-tub |
| budu | anchovies pickled in brine after being dried and partially decayed | |
| Nias | budu | kind of dried fish |
| Sundanese | bodo | a snack eaten by the Baduy people which consists of small fermented fish which are cooked, salted and preserved in a bamboo internode’ |
| CMP | ||
| Tetun | budu | to pickle |
| budun | to pickle | |
| budu tabaku | place tobacco in a heap so that after the necessary ingredients are added it may assume the desired color, strength, and aromatic flavor; sour conserves, pickles an unwashed strong-odored body, or to stay at home | |
| Kambera | pa-budu | stew until ripe (as bananas) |
| budu | to ferment, pickle | |
| ia budu | salted fish | |