بوش

بوْش (bôş)

1. Arabic spelling of bôş (“empty”)

بوْش (bowš)

1. temple, sanctuary

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, free”).

• IPA^(key): /boːʃ/

بوش • (bōš) m (uncountable)

1. zip, zilch, nothing, nada

   شو؟ ربحت شي؟ — لأ بوش

   šū? rbiḥt šī? — laʔ bōš

   Well? Did you win anything? — Nope, nada.

From Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“free, empty”).

بوش • (boş)

1. empty, unoccupied, free, vacant

   Antonym: طولو

2. useless
3. (of an animal) loose, untethered
4. (of a woman) unmarried

• بوشاتمق (boşatmak)
• بوشالتمق (boşaltmak)
• بوشالمق (boşalmak)
• بوشانمش (boşanmış)

• Gagauz: boş
• Turkish: boş
• → Albanian: bosh
• → Arabic: بوش (bōš) (in the dialects of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia)
• → Armenian: բոշ (boš)
• → English: bosh
• → Macedonian: бош (boš)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бо̏ш

  Latin script: bȍš

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 400

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (bwšn /⁠bawišn⁠/, “being”). By surface analysis, بو (bov-, present stem of بودن (budan, “to be”)) +‎ ـش (-eš, suffix deriving nouns from verbs).

بوش • (boveš)

1. being, dasein, existence
2. divine will, divine decree
   • 10th century, Ferdowsi, Shahnameh

     هر آن چیز کو خواست اندر بوش
     بر آن است چرخ روان را روش

     har ān čīz k-ō xwāst andar buwiš / bar ān ast čarx i rawān rā rawiš

     what ever he wanted God's divine will to be / the celestial sphere spins in accordance to that.

• بونده (bovande, “be-er”)

Probably from Turkic بوش (boş, “loose, untethered”).

بوش • (bowš)

1. cockiness, pretentiousness, pomposity
   • 10th century, Rumi, Masnavi

     بهر فخر و بهر بوش و بهر ناز
     نز برای ترس و تقوا و نیاز

     bahr-i faxr u bahr-i bawš u bahr-i nāz
     na-z barāy-i tars u taqwā wu niyāz

     from pride, pomposity and vanity
     not because of fear, piety, and need.

• بشقاب (bošqâb, “plate, dish”)

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوش”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 277b
• Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname‎^[3] (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 157b