buho

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Hiligaynon

Noun

buhò (diminutive buhô-buhò)

  1. crevice, hole, opening, perforation, pit, vent

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin būfus (“owl”).

Pronunciation

Noun

buho m (plural buhos)

  1. owl
    • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 108r:
      […] la uertud de figura de mugier q́ ua antella un ninno. ⁊ tiene ſolos pies un buho, ⁊ ſobre ſu cabeça eſtas figuras de letras.
      the virtue of the figure of a woman and a child before her, and under her feet an owl, and over her head the shapes of these letters.

Descendants

  • Spanish: búho

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

buho

  1. vocative singular of buha

Spanish

Noun

buho m (plural buhos)

  1. Superseded spelling of búho.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *buluq (“type of slender bamboo; Schizostachyum spp.”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bolo, Kapampangan bulu, Hanunoo bulo, Aklanon bueo, Cebuano bulo, Maranao bolo, Malay buluh, and Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸꦃ (wuluh).

Pronunciation

Noun

buhò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ)

  1. a type of slender bamboo

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “buho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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