բով

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Armenian

Etymology 1

From Old Armenian բով (bov).

Pronunciation

Noun

բով (bov)

  1. furnace
  2. (figurative) furnace, crucible (a place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Azerbaijani böv, büvə, böyə. Doublet of պո̈ւ (, ghost) and պի (pi, venomous spider) in the dialects of Constantinople and Nor Nakhijevan, borrowed from other Turkic languages.

Alternative forms

Noun

բով (bov)

  1. (dialectal, Karabakh) a kind of arachnid, probably camel spider
    Synonym: խըմբըրկատու (xəmbərkatu)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բով”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 202b
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 183
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “բօվ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 101c
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բով”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 211a

Old Armenian

Etymology

Ačaṙyan derives from Proto-Indo-European *bʰō- or *bʰow-, from *bʰeh₁-.

Noun

բով (bov)

  1. furnace
  2. crucible, melting pot
  3. censer
  4. fire
  5. smelting
  6. (in the plural) mine
  7. (figurative) furnace, crucible (a place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Armenian: բով (bov)
  • Romani: bov (oven, stove)

References

  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  2. ^ Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բով”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 473–474

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “բով”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 506a
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բով”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 105a