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Emilian

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Alternative forms

  • bå (Bolognese)

Noun

bò m (plural bō)

  1. (Carpi) cattle

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bord.

Pronunciation

Noun

bò

  1. side
  2. half
  3. part

Preposition

bò

  1. by, alongside, near, next to

Derived terms

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbwɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Syllabification: bò

Conjunction

bò

  1. because

Further reading

  • Stefan Ramułt (1893) “bœ”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 10
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “bo”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
  • “bò”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka , Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Mandarin

Alternative forms

Romanization

bò (bo4, Zhuyin ㄅㄛˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孹
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 挀
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 播
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擘
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柏
  6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 栢
  7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檗
  8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疈
  9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 簸
  10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繴
  11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
  12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薜
  13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘖
  14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘗
  15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譒 / 𮷊
  16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 北

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish bó, from Proto-Celtic *bāus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

Pronunciation

Noun

bò f (dative singular bò or boin, genitive singular bà, plural bà)

  1. cow

Usage notes

  • The plural forms of bò are rarely used. The collective term crodh (“cattle”) is generally used; in South Uist and Barra, beathaichean (“animals; beasts”) is also common.

Declension

Declension of bò
indefinite
singular plural
nominative bò bà
genitive bà bò
dative bò; boin bà
definite
singular plural
nominative (a') bhò (na) bà
genitive (na) bà (nam) bò
dative (a') bhoin; (a') bhò (na) bà
vocative bhò bhà

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of bò
radical lenition
bò bhò

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bò”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Vietnamese

Vietnamese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“zebu; bovine”). Probably ultimately of imitative origin.

Compare Vietnamese ụm bò (“moo”) and items such as Malay lembu, Khmu lmboʔ and Cebuano amba, which are superficially similar but lack straightforward correspondence with the Vietnamese word.

Noun

(classifier con) bò • (𤙭)

  1. bovine
    nuôi bò ― to keep cows
    chăn bò ― to graze the cows
    thịt bò ― beef
    bò vàng phương Nam ― Southern Yellow cattle
    bò sữa ― dairy cow
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“to crawl; to drag”).

Verb

bò • (𨁏, 𨄳, 蒲, 𨆶)

  1. to creep; to crawl (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground)
    rắn bò ― a snake crawls
    lổm ngổm như cua bò ― to swagger as a crab crawls
  2. (botany) to creep (to grow across a surface rather than upwards); to climb (to grow upwards by clinging to something)
    Mướp bò lên giàn. ― The loofah climbed the frame.
  3. to slowly climb
    Chiếc xe bò lên dốc. ― The car climbed up the hill.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Compare vò.

Noun

bò

  1. (informal) a unit of measurement for grain volume equivalent to the capacity of a condensed milk can
    Synonyms: ống bơ, bơ
    Vay vài bò gạo. ― Lend me some condensed milk cans' worth of rice.

References

Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “bò”, in Việt–Việt‎ (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024

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