ဘော

• IPA^(key): /bɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhau: • ALA-LC: bho • BGN/PCGN: baw: • Okell: bò

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be in STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

ဘော • (bhau:)

1. a male ancestor seven generations back

   Synonym: အဘော (a.bhau:)

• (kinship generations) မျိုးဆက် (myui:hcak); ဘော (bhau:), ဘဲ (bhai:), ဘင် (bhang), ဘီ (bhi), ဘေး (bhe:), ဘိုး (bhui:), ဘ (bha.), သား (sa:), မြေး (mre:), မြစ် (mrac), တီ (ti), တွတ် (twat) / မျှော့ (hmyau.), ကျွတ် (kywat), ဆက် (hcak), ^{(Category: my:Family)}

Borrowed from English ball.

ဘော • (bhau:)

1. ball

   Synonym: အလုံး (a.lum:)

2. steel ball in ball bearings

• “ဘော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

ဘော

1. (vocative) Burmese script form of bho (“friend”)
2. Burmese script form of bho, which is vocative singular/plural of ဘဝန္တ် (bhavant, “sir”)