böyə

Azerbaijani

Alternative forms

• böv, büvə

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bȫg. Cognate with Ottoman Turkish بوی (böy), بو (bö), Turkish böğ, bö, Bashkir бөйө (böyö), Kyrgyz бөйү (böyü), бөө (böö).

Pronunciation

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Noun

böyə

1. sun spider, camel spider, wind scorpion, solifuge, member of Solifugae

Related terms

• böcək

Descendants

• → Armenian: բով (bov), բո (bo) (dialectal)
• → Tat: bö

Further reading

• Bövlər on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bi̯ūgi”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill