bou

See also: Bou

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bouwen, from Middle Dutch bouwen, from Old Dutch buwan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœu̯/

• Audio:

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Verb

bou (present bou, present participle bouende, past participle gebou)

1. to build

Derived terms

• bouer
• gebou

Noun

bou (uncountable)

1. building, construction (activity of building)
2. structure

Äiwoo

Verb

bou

1. to fear

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Daco-Romanian bou.

Noun

bou m (plural boi, definite singular boulu)

1. ox

Related terms

• buin
• buits / buici
• buyear

See also

• tavru
• vacã

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔw]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Rhymes: -ɔw

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin bovem.

Noun

bou m (plural bous)

1. ox
2. bullock, steer
3. the edible crab (Cancer pagurus)

   Synonym: bou de mar

Derived terms

• bovada
• bovatge
• bover
• passar bou per bèstia grossa
• ull de bou

 

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek βόλος (bólos).

Noun

bou m (uncountable)

1. seine fishing

Derived terms

• bover

Descendants

• → Galician: bou

Further reading

• “bou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Hokkien 武夷 (Bú-î). Compare English bohea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: boue

Noun

bou m (plural bous)

1. type of Chinese tea

Galician

Etymology

From Catalan bou, idem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbow/

Noun

bou m (plural bous)

1. (fishing) pair trawling
2. (fishing) trawler used for pair trawling

   Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou. [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow]

   [A Galician tongue-twister]: If I'll go to Bueu in a bou, I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.

See also

• Pair trawling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bou (pesca) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bou”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bou”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bou”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Japanese

Romanization

bou

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼう

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• boub
• bouk

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠou]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠewiw/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩwiw}

Noun

bou

1. a dragonfly

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin bovem.

Noun

bou m

1. ox

References

• Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German wō, wā, wār, from Old High German hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”). Cognate with German wo, English where.

Adverb

bou

1. where

References

• “bou” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• bueu

Etymology

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔw/

Noun

bou m (oblique plural bous, nominative singular bous, nominative plural bou)

1. ox

Descendants

• Auvergnat: beu, bueu
• Gascon: buèu, bueu, beu, bieu, büu
• Languedocien: buòu, biòu
• Provençal: buou, bou
• Vivaro-Alpine: buou

Romanian

Alternative forms

• боу (bou) — post-1930s (Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Aromanian bou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bow/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ow

Noun

bou m (plural boi)

1. ox
2. (colloquial) idiot

   Synonyms: idiot, tâmpit, prost

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bou	boul		boi	boii
genitive-dative	bou	boului		boi	boilor
vocative	boule			boilor

Derived terms

• bouț
• boulean
• boușor

Related terms

• boar
• bovin

See also

• vacă
• taur
• vițel

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [buː]
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): [bʌu]
• (North Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [puː]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bú (“farming, a farm, farm stock”).

Noun

bou (plural bous)

1. (agriculture) stock or herd of cattle; farmhouse, village

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bouin (“lease of cattle and land”)
• bouhoose (“cattle shed”)
• bou-stane (“earthfast stone in the foundation of a building”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bógr.

Noun

bou (plural bous)

1. (nautical) bow

Etymology 3

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō.

Verb

bou (third-person singular simple present bous, present participle bouin, simple past boued, past participle boued)

1. to bow, bend

Derived terms

Derived terms

• beck an bou (“to bow and scrape, curry favour”)
• bou-backit (“hump-backed”)
• bou-end (“the first net shot after the buoy from a herring-boat”)
• bou-hocht (“bandy-legged”)
• boued twafauld (“bent over”)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bou (plural bous)

1. louse

Alternative forms

• bo

Etymology 5

Noun

bou (plural bous)

1. Alternative form of bo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan bou. Doublet of buey and bife.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbou/ [ˈbou̯]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

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• Rhymes: -ou
• Syllabification: bou

Noun

bou m (uncountable)

1. seine fishing

Noun

bou m (plural boues)

1. boat for seine fishing, seiner

Further reading

• “bou”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Ternate

Etymology

Likely to ultimately be from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq; compare Proto-Oceanic *bou (“smell, odor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.u/

Noun

bou

1. an odor, an unpleasant smell

Verb

bou

1. (stative) to smell bad, to stink

Conjugation

Conjugation of bou
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tobou	fobou	mibou
2nd	nobou	nibou
3rd	Masculine	obou	ibou, yobou†
Feminine	mobou
Neuter	ibou
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh