bafo

See also: bafö

Adja

Noun

bafo

1. corn

Galician

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. From Old Galician-Portuguese bafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Cognate with Portuguese bafo, Ladino bafo and Spanish vaho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbafo̝/

Noun

bafo m (plural bafos)

1. breath (exhalation)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana:

     Et el deytaua da boca hũa escuma que semellaua chama, et o sseu bafo semellaua que queymaua o ayro.

     He emitted from his mouth a foam that seemed a flame, and his breath appeared to burn the air

2. bad breath
3. puff
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

4. vapor, steam

   Synonym: vapor

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo

     knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out

5. air vent of the oven

Derived terms

• abafante
• abafar
• abafo
• bafarada
• bafareira
• bafarida
• bafento
• bafexar
• fedellabafo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bafo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bafo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bafo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bafo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bafo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ladino

Noun

bafo f (Latin spelling)

1. breath
2. blow (act of expelling air from the mouth)

Derived terms

• abafador
• abafamiento
• abafar
• atabafado
• atabafar
• atabafo
• baforada

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese bafo (“breath”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.fu/

Noun

bafo

1. breathing, respiration
2. air

Derived terms

• bafo cumprido, bafo di ade (“a person who talks a lot and repetitively”)
• sai bafo

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#b

Portuguese

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. From Old Galician-Portuguese bafo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.fu/

• Rhymes: -afu
• Hyphenation: ba‧fo

Noun

bafo m (plural bafos)

1. bad breath
2. breath
3. (Brazil, gay slang) something very good

Derived terms

• abafar
• bafão
• bafejar
• bafômetro
• bafônico
• baforar

 

Descendants

• Macanese: bafo

Venetan

Noun

bafo m (plural bafi)

1. whisker
2. (chiefly in the plural) moustache

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ɸo/

Verb

bafo

1. (stative) to be alive
2. (intransitive) to grow

Conjugation

Conjugation of bafo (stative verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tibafo	mibafo	abafo
2nd person		nibafo	fibafo
3rd person	inanimate	ibafo	dibafo
	animate	mabafo
imperative		—, bafo	—, bafo

Conjugation of bafo (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tabafo	mabafo	abafo
2nd person		nabafo	fabafo
3rd person	inanimate	ibafo	dabafo
	animate
imperative		nabafo, bafo	fabafo, bafo

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics
• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics