bois

See also: Bois, BOIs, and bóis

English

Noun

bois

1. plural of boi

Anagrams

• BIOS, Ibos, SIBO, bios, obis, sibo

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French bois, boys, boiz, from Old French bosc, bois, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”). Compare Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque, Dutch bos and English bush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwa/, /bwɑ/

Noun

bois m (countable and uncountable, plural bois)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
2. (countable) wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
3. (countable) wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
4. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
5. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind

   Coordinate term: cuivre

6. (art) wooden engraving, woodcut
7. (golf) wood (type of club)
8. (nautical, dated) hull

Derived terms

• Belle au bois dormant
• bois de chauffage
• bois de justice
• bois d’œuvre
• boisé
• charbon de bois
• chèque en bois
• croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer
• cuillère en bois
• déménager à la cloche de bois
• être dans les poux de bois
• faire feu de tout bois
• faire flèche de tout bois
• gueule de bois
• hautbois
• jambe de bois
• langue de bois
• petit bois
• pousseur de bois
• Robin des Bois
• sous-bois
• toucher du bois
• trouver visage de bois
• volée de bois vert

 

Related terms

• buisson

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Homophone: boit

Verb

bois

1. inflection of boire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Further reading

• “bois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bios

Galician

Noun

bois

1. plural of boi

Irish

Noun

bois

1. inflection of bos:
   1. dative singular
   2. dual all cases

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bois	bhois	mbois
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Maranao

Etymology

From buis.

Noun

bois

1. tax

Old French

Alternative forms

• bosc

Etymology

From Late Latin boscus, Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboi̯s/

Noun

bois oblique singular, m (oblique plural bois, nominative singular bois, nominative plural bois)

1. woodland; woods

Derived terms

• buison
• boschage

Descendants

• Bourguignon: boo
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
• Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
  • French: bois
    • Haitian Creole: bwa
• Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
• Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
• Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
• Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
• ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
  • Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
    • French: bouquet
      • → English: bouquet
  • Gallo: bóqèt
  • Norman: boûquet
  • Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
  • Walloon: boukèt

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbojs/ [ˈboɪ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbojs/ [ˈboɪ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbojʃ/ [ˈboɪ̯ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbojʃ/

• Hyphenation: bois

Noun

bois

1. plural of boi

Sambali

Etymology

From buis.

Noun

boís

1. tax

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• vois

Etymology

From Latin vōbīs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbois/, [ˈboː.i.zĭ]

Pronoun

bois (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonyms: bos, bosateros

See also

• nois (“we”)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

bois

1. dative singular of bas

Usage notes

• Also used as nominative.