bos

bos

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bosnian.

bos

1. plural of bo

• OSB, SOB, sob, SBO, obs, BSO, obs., Obs, OBs

From Dutch bos, from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

• Audio:

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bos (plural bosse, diminutive bossie)

1. wood, forest
2. bush, shrub
3. bunch, bundle, sheaf, bouquet

   Hy het vir my 'n bossie blomme gegee.

   He gave me a bunch/bouquet of flowers.

bos

1. Superseded spelling of vos.

• bones

From Proto-Celtic *butā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be”).

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːz/
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): (verbal noun) /ˈboːz/, (long forms, e.g. ero'ma, ere'vy) /ˈɛrɐ/, (preterite) /ˈbiː/

bos (irregular)

1. to be
2. (Revived Late Cornish, future, preterite or conditional tenses) to have; to get

   My a veu own.

   I was frightened.

   (literally, “I had fright.”)

   Nei via pris da rag an hern.

   We would get a good price for the pilchards.

   Termyn aral hwei vedh moy.

   Another time you will have more.

• IPA^(key):

bos

1. (literary) short masculine singular of bosý

   Synonym: bosky

• “bos”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bos”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Possibly from Latin buxus (“box tree”).

bos m

1. oak tree

Unknown.

bos m

1. thigh, hind quarters

bos n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

• bosch (obsolete)

From Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

bos n (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. wood, forest

   Zij ging wandelen in de bossen.

   She went walking in the woods.

2. (Suriname) jungle, tropical rainforest
   • 2013, Scrappy W (lyrics and music), “Super Saamaka”:

     Ik woon in de stad en ik kom uit het bos / Toerisme gestudeerd en ik ben tevens kok / Mensen vinden me tof, grof, onbeschoft / en respect voor mijn buurvrouw want die noemt me os

     I live in the city and I'm from the jungle / Studied tourism and I am also a cook / People think I am harsh, rude, uncouth / and respect for my neighbour because she calls me an ox

bos m (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. bouquet, cluster, bunch

   Hij bracht een bosje bloemen mee.

   He brought me a bouquet of flowers.

-in Dutch toponyms:

From Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

bos m (plural bos)

1. box (tree)
2. boxwood

bos

1. masculine plural of bo

From Portuguese vos. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.

bos

1. you (plural second person)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: bos

From Dutch bos (“cluster, bunch”), from Middle Dutch bosch, busch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bos

1. cluster, bunch.

From English boss, from Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô, masculine form of Proto-Germanic *baswǭ (“father's sister, aunt, cousin”). Cognate with Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old Frisian bas (“master”) > Saterland Frisian Boas (“boss”), Old High German basa (“father's sister, cousin”) > German Base (“aunt, cousin”). Doublet of bas.

bos (plural bos-bos)

1. boss, leader, head

   Synonyms: bas, mandor, pemborong, pembesar, kepala

• “bos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• bas

From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”).

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʌsˠ/^[2]

bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)

1. (anatomy) palm of the hand

   Synonym: dearna

2. (hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley

• Dual: dhá bhois

• boiseog

• → Yola: baush, bash

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *boĺ.

bos

1. empty

• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “бос”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

From Portuguese vós (“ye”), from Old Galician-Portuguese vos, from Latin vōs (“ye”).

bos

1. you; thou (second-person singular personal pronoun)^[1]

bos f (Latin spelling, plural bozes)

1. Alternative form of boz

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

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• bovis, bus (rare)

Irregular, for the expected **vōs/**ūs, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws, which also gave Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Sanskrit गो (go) (nominative singular gaúḥ), and English cow.

Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum (acc.sg.), bue (abl.sg.), buo (gen.pl.), buf (acc.pl.) all spelling /bō-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with vōs (“you”) in the nominative and with ovis (“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bos/,

bōs m or f (irregular, genitive bovis); third declension

1. head of cattle (cow, bull, steer, or ox)
   • c. 98 CE, Tacitus, Germania 18:

     Hoc iuncti boves, hoc paratus equus, hoc data arma denuntiant.

     The yoked oxen, the harnessed steed, the gift of arms, proclaim this fact.

Third-declension noun (irregular).

• The medial /w/ is often found spelled B, normally not spelled in the form boum, and is sometimes lost in the forms bo(v)e and bo(v)ēs.
• The ablative singular is once the archaizing bovīd in an inscription.

• cornigera n pl
• iūmentum (when used to pull carts); armentum (when used to pull plows)

• iūmenta (when used to pull carts); armenta (when used to pull plows)

• taurus m
• vacca f
• vitulus m

• “bōs” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bōs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 74

• “bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “On Latin bōs”, in laohutiger.wordpress.com, 2012 January 2, retrieved 2021-06-16

• (rubbish): bøss, boss
• (straw): bys

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

Compare Swedish boss with the same meaning.

• IPA^(key): /boːs/

bos n (definite singular boset, uncountable)

1. (Western and Southern Norway) garbage, rubbish, waste

   Synonyms: avfall, søppel

2. straw for or from a strawbed

• “bos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”). Cognates include Old English *bōs, Old Saxon *bōs and Old Norse báss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːs/

bōs m

1. stall, byre

• Saterland Frisian: Buus
• West Frisian: bús

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

bos m (plural boși)

1. Alternative form of boss

• vos

From Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *yū́ (“you”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbos/

bos (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonyms: bois, bosateros

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bosъ.

• IPA^(key): /bôːs/

bȏs (Cyrillic spelling бо̑с, definite bȏsī)

1. barefoot

From Proto-Slavic *bosъ.

• IPA^(key): /bóːs/, /bɔ́s/

bȍs or bòs (not comparable)

1. barefoot

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• “bos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

bos

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

bos

1. passive infinitive of bo
2. present passive of bo

• bebos

• obs

• boss

Borrowed from English boss.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbos/
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: bos

bos (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔) (colloquial)

1. boss, chief, head

   Synonyms: hepe, puno

2. a male term of address

• bosing

• “boss”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English boss.

bos

1. boss, overseer, master
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

     →New International Version translation

• masta

• bosim

bos

1. something