буу

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Buryat

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠤᠤ (buu, musket), from Mandarin (pào, mangonel; cannon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊː/,
  • Hyphenation: буу

Noun

буу (buu) (??? please provide spelling!)

  1. gun

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic بۋۋ
Cyrillic буу
Latin buu
Yañalif ʙuu

Noun

буу (buu)

  1. tying up
  2. suffocation
  3. interception

Verb

буу (buu)

  1. to tie up
  2. to suffocate
  3. to intercept

Conjugation

Kyrgyz

Noun

буу (buu)

  1. steam

Declension

Mongolian

Etymology 1

Mongolian
(Mongolia)(China)
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
ᠫᠤᠤ
(puu)
Cyrillic
буу
(buu)

Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠤᠤ (buu, musket), from Mandarin (pào, mangonel; cannon).

Pronunciation

Noun

буу (buu) (definite plural буунууд); (hidden-n declension)

  1. firearm
    Hypernym: галт зэвсэг (galt zevseg)
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

MongolianCyrillic
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
буу
(buu)

From Mandarin (bǎo, a kind of gambling device with direction markings on them).

Pronunciation

Noun

буу (buu); (hidden-n declension)

  1. a kind of dice game
    Synonym: онх (onx)
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 3

MongolianCyrillic
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
буу
(buu)

Compare Manchu ᠪᠣᠣ (boo) in ᠪᠣᠣ
ᠨᡳᠮᠠᡥᠠ
(boo nimaha).

Pronunciation

Adjective

буу (buu)

  1. Only used in буу загас (buu zagas, whale)

Southern Altai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *būg (steam).

Noun

буу (buu)

  1. steam

Etymology 2

From Kipchak *baw, from Common Turkic *bāğ (rope, binder), from Proto-Turkic *b(i)ā- (to bind, fasten).

Noun

буу (buu)

  1. cord, rope