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bò

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bo"

Emilian

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Alternative forms

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  • bå (Bolognese)

Noun

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bò m (plural bō)

  1. (Carpi) cattle

Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French bord.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bò

  1. side
  2. half
  3. part

Preposition

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bò

  1. by, alongside, near, next to

Derived terms

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Kashubian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bo.

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

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bò

  1. because

Further reading

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  • 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[1]
  • “bò”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Mandarin

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Alternative forms

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Romanization

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish bó,[1] from Proto-Celtic *bāus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. cow

Declension

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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

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Derived terms

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References

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  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

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bò”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

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

Noun

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(classifier con) bò • (𤙭)

  1. a Southern Yellow zebu (a bovine of the breed Feng cattle)
    trâu bò ― water buffaloes and Southern Yellow zebus
    nuôi bò ― to keep Southern Yellow zebus
    chăn bò ― to tend/graze Southern Yellow zebus
    thịt bò ― Southern Yellow beef
  2. (by extension) any bovine from the subtribe Bovina
    bò sữa ― a dairy bovine; cow
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Etymology 2

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

Verb

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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.
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Etymology 3

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Compare vò.

Noun

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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

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"bò" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

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