bou

From Dutch bouwen, from Middle Dutch bouwen, from Old Dutch buwan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.

• IPA^(key): /bœu̯/

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bou (present bou, present participle bouende, past participle gebou)

1. to build

• bouer
• gebou

bou (uncountable)

1. building, construction (activity of building)
2. structure

bou

1. to fear

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Daco-Romanian bou.

bou m (plural boi)

1. ox

• buin
• buits / buici
• buyear

• tavru
• vacã

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔw/

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• Rhymes: -ɔw

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs.

bou m (plural bous)

1. ox
2. bullock, steer
3. the edible crab (Cancer pagurus)

   Synonym: bou de mar

• bovatge
• passar bou per bèstia grossa
• ull de bou

From Ancient Greek βόλος (bólos).

bou m (plural bous)

1. seine fishing

• → Galician: bou

• “bou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Min Nan 武夷 (Bú-î).

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• Homophone: boue

bou m (plural bous)

1. type of Chinese tea

From Catalan bou, idem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbow/

bou m (plural bous)

1. (fishing) pair trawling
2. (fishing) trawler used for pair trawling

   Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou. [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow]

   [A Galician tongue-twister]: If I'll go to Bueu in a bou, I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.

• Pair trawling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bou (pesca) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

• “bou” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bou” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bou” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bou

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼう

• boub
• bouk

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠou]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠewiw/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩwiw}

bou

1. a dragonfly

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Middle High German wō, wā, wār, from Old High German hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”). Cognate with German wo, English where.

bou

1. where

• “bou” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• bueu

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs.

• IPA^(key): /bɔw/

bou m (oblique plural bous, nominative singular bous, nominative plural bou)

1. ox

• Auvergnat: beu, bueu
• Gascon: buèu, bueu, beu, bieu, büu
• Languedocien: buòu, biòu
• Provençal: buou, bou
• Vivaro-Alpine: buou

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum.

• IPA^(key): /bow/

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bou m (plural boi)

1. ox
2. (colloquial) idiot

   Synonyms: idiot, tâmpit, prost

• bouț
• boulean
• boușor

• boar
• bovin

• vacă
• taur
• vițel

• IPA^(key): [buː]
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): [bʌu]
• (North Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [puː]

From Old Norse bú (“farming, a farm, farm stock”).

bou (plural bous)

1. (agriculture) stock or herd of cattle; farmhouse, village

From Old Norse bógr.

bou (plural bous)

1. (nautical) bow

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō.

bou (third-person singular simple present bous, present participle bouin, simple past boued, past participle boued)

1. to bow, bend

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

bou (plural bous)

1. louse

• bo

bou (plural bous)

1. Alternative form of bo

Borrowed from Catalan bou. Doublet of buey and bife.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbou/ [ˈbou̯]
• Rhymes: -ou
• Syllabification: bou

bou m (uncountable)

1. seine fishing

bou m (plural boues)

1. boat for seine fishing, seiner

• “bou”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Likely to ultimately be from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq; compare Proto-Oceanic *bou (“smell, odor”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.u/

bou

1. an odor, an unpleasant smell

bou

1. (stative) to smell bad, to stink

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh