بوی

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See also: بوى, پوی, and بوے

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bod.

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. stature, height, length, size
Descendants
  • Turkish: boy
  • → Armenian: բոյ (boy)
  • → Bulgarian: бой (boj)
  • → Romanian: boi
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бо̑ј
    Latin script: bȏj

Etymology 2

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. tribe, clan
Descendants

Etymology 3

From Proto-Oghuz, from Persian بوی (bôy, “smell”).

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. (only constructed with اوتی (otu), تخمی (tohumu), or چیچگی (çiçeği)) fenugreek
    Synonyms: چمن (çemen), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)
Descendants

Etymology 4

From Proto-Turkic *bȫg. Cognate with Azerbaijani böyə.

Alternative forms

Noun

بوی • (böy)

  1. wolf spider
Descendants

Further reading

  • Hauenschild, Ingeborg (2003) Die Tierbezeichnungen bei Mahmud al-Kaschgari: eine Untersuchung aus sprach- und kulturhistorischer Sicht (Turcologica; 53) (in German), Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, →ISBN, pages 70–71
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, pages 135–136
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 295b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 946b–947a

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? bōy
Dari reading? būy, bōy
Iranian reading? buy
Tajik reading? büy

Noun

Dari بوی
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯй

بوی • (buy)

  1. smell, scent

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Chagatai: بوی (boy)
  • → Kipchak: بوی (boy)
  • → Proto-Oghuz: *boy
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: بوی (boy, “fenugreek”)
      • Ottoman Turkish: بوی (boy, “fenugreek”)
        • Turkish: boy (“fenugreek”)
  • → Hindustani:
    Urdu: بو (bū)
    Hindi: बू (bū)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 947a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 281
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