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Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
boga f (plural bogues)
- edge, border, limit
Etymology 2
Inherited from Latin bōca, from Ancient Greek βῶξ (bôx).
Alternative forms
Noun
boga f (plural bogues)
- a bogue (Boops boops), an Atlantic seabreams
Etymology 3
Inherited from Latin buda, a borrowing from a Berber language of North Africa.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
boga f (plural bogues)
- cattail
Further reading
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Noun
boga
- bow (weapon)
1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Finnish
Etymology
From English bogue.
Pronunciation
Noun
boga
- bogue (Boops boops)
Declension
Galician
Etymology 1
From Late Latin bōca, from Ancient Greek βῶκα (bôka), accusative of βῶξ (bôx), a contracted form of βόαξ (bóax).
Pronunciation
Noun
boga m (plural bogas)
- bogue (Boops boops)
1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes en Romance:A cabeça do budio, ante ti a põ, y a da boga, ante tua sogra- The head of the wrasse she places before you, and that of the bogue, before your mother-in-law
- northern straight-mouth nase (Pseudochondrostoma duriense)
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”). Compare Asturian boga, Occitan bauc.
Noun
boga m (plural bogas)
- trip hammer's clamp
References
- “boga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “boga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “boga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “boga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Verb
boga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bogaði, supine bogað)
- to flow
Usage notes
- The verb að boga is used almost exclusively of sweat.
Conjugation
infinitive (nafnháttur)
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að boga
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supine (sagnbót)
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bogað
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present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar)
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bogandi
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indicative (framsöguháttur)
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subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
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present (nútíð)
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ég boga
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við bogum
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present (nútíð)
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ég bogi
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við bogum
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þú bogar
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þið bogið
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þú bogir
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þið bogið
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hann, hún, það bogar
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þeir, þær, þau boga
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hann, hún, það bogi
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þeir, þær, þau bogi
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past (þátíð)
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ég bogaði
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við boguðum
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past (þátíð)
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ég bogaði
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við boguðum
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þú bogaðir
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þið boguðuð
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þú bogaðir
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þið boguðuð
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hann, hún, það bogaði
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þeir, þær, þau boguðu
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hann, hún, það bogaði
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þeir, þær, þau boguðu
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imperative (boðháttur)
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boga (þú)
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bogið (þið)
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Forms with appended personal pronoun
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bogaðu
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bogiði *
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* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
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Noun
boga
- inflection of bogi:
- indefinite accusative singular
- indefinite accusative plural
- indefinite dative singular
- indefinite genitive singular
- indefinite genitive plural
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦒ (boga, “food”), from Old Javanese bhoga (“enjoyment, eating; any object of enjoyment, food; profit, utility, pleasure”), from Sanskrit भोग (bhoga, “eating”). Compare Malay boga (“favourite”).
Pronunciation
Noun
boga (first-person possessive bogaku, second-person possessive bogamu, third-person possessive boganya)
- food.
- Synonyms: makanan, masakan, hidangan, santapan
Derived terms
Further reading
Irish
Pronunciation
Adjective
boga
- nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of bog
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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boga
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bhoga
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mboga
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin bōca, from Ancient Greek βῶκα (bôka), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye, view”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ɡa/
- Rhymes: -ɔɡa
- Hyphenation: bò‧ga
Noun
boga f (plural boghe)
- bogue (Boops boops)
- Synonym: vopa
- boxfish (Ostraciidae)
Descendants
- → Tunisian Arabic: بوقة (būga, “bogue, Boops boops”)
References
- ^ Guido Bellatti Ceccoli, Franco Pierno (2006) “Talassozoonimi e terminologia dell'attività ittica d'influenza italiana nel dialetto arabo tunisino”, in Romance Philology (in Tunisian Arabic), volume 59, number 2, →JSTOR, page 225
Further reading
- boga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Boops boops on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Javanese
Romanization
boga
- Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦒ
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Noun
boga
- inflection of bog:
- genitive/accusative singular
- nominative dual
Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit भोग (bhoga).
Noun
boga (Jawi spelling بوݢ, plural boga-boga, informal 1st possessive bogaku, 2nd possessive bogamu, 3rd possessive boganya)
- favourite
Further reading
Middle Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse bogi.
Pronunciation
Noun
boga m
- (archery) bow
- bow, curve
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Middle Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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boga |
boga pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mboga
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Related to Old Frisian boga, Old Saxon bogo, Old Dutch *bogo, Old High German bogo, and Old Norse bogi.
Pronunciation
Noun
boga m
- bow (weapon)
- hīe lēton gāras flēogan, bogan wǣron bisiġe ― they let arrows fly, bows were busy. (Battle of Maldon)
- arch
Declension
Declension of boga (weak)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Old Norse
Noun
boga
- inflection of bogi:
- accusative/dative/genitive singular
- accusative/genitive plural
Phuthi
Etymology
From Proto-Nguni *-bonga.
Verb
-boga
- to thank
- to praise
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ɡa/
- Rhymes: -ɔɡa
- Syllabification: bo‧ga
Noun
boga
- genitive/accusative singular of bóg
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin boca.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɡɐ
- Hyphenation: bo‧ga
Noun
boga m (plural bogas) (ichthyology)
- common designation, extended to different species of teleost fish from the Sparidae family of seabreams and porgies.
- Iberian nase (Pseudochondrostoma polylepis)
- bogue (Boops boops)
- (Brazil) Megaleporinus conirostris (syn. Leporinus conirostris)
- (Brazil) Schizodon fasciatus
- (Brazil) Trichomycterus rivulatus
- (derogatory) anus
Rohingya
Alternative forms
Noun
boga (Hanifi spelling 𐴁𐴡𐴒𐴝)
- egret
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboɡa/
- Rhymes: -oɡa
- Syllabification: bo‧ga
Etymology 1
Inherited from Late Latin bōca, from Ancient Greek βῶκα (bôka), accusative of βῶξ (bôx), a contracted form of βόαξ (bóax).
Noun
boga f (plural bogas)
- any of species Leporinus obtusidens of ray-finned fish (characin)
Etymology 2
Deverbal from bogar (“to row”).
Noun
boga f (plural bogas)
- rowing
- Synonym: remo
Noun
boga m or f by sense (plural bogas)
- rower
- Synonyms: bogador, remero, remador
Etymology 3
Borrowed from French vogue.
Noun
boga f (plural bogas)
- vogue
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
boga
- inflection of bogar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
boga (ma class, plural maboga)
- pumpkin or squash
- Synonym: malenge