bò

• bå (Bolognese)

bò m (plural bō)

1. (Carpi) cattle

From French bord.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ/

bò

1. side
2. half
3. part

bò

1. by, alongside, near, next to

• kibò

• abò
• bòde
• bòdi
• bòdmè
• debòde

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbwɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: bò

bò

1. because

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “bœ”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 10
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “bo”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “bò”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• bo — nonstandard

bò (bo⁴, Zhuyin ㄅㄛˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孹
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 挀
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 播
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擘
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柏
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 栢
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檗
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疈
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 簸
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繴
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薜
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘖
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘗
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譒 / 𮷊
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 北

• bó (superseded)

From Old Irish bó,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bāus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

• IPA^(key): /poː/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [poː˧], [poː˧˥]^[2]

bò f (dative singular bò or boin, genitive singular bà, plural bà)

1. cow

• The plural forms of bò are rarely used. The collective term crodh (“cattle”) is generally used; in South Uist and Barra, beathaichean (“animals; beasts”) is also common.

• mart

• bò mhaol odhar agus bò odhar mhaol
• math na bà

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bò”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]

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From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“zebu; bovine”). Probably ultimately of imitative origin.

Compare Vietnamese ụm bò (“moo”) and items such as Malay lembu, Khmu [Cuang] lmboʔ and Cebuano amba, which are superficially similar but lack straightforward correspondence with the Vietnamese word.

(classifier con) bò • (𤙭)

1. bovine

   nuôi bò ― to keep cows

   chăn bò ― to graze the cows

   thịt bò ― beef

   bò vàng phương Nam ― Southern Yellow cattle

   bò sữa ― dairy cow

• bê (“calf”)
• ụm bò (“moo”)
• trâu (“buffalo”)

From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“to crawl; to drag”).

bò • (𨁏, 𨄳, 蒲, 𨆶)

1. to creep; to crawl (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground)

   rắn bò ― a snake crawls

   lổm ngổm như cua bò ― to swagger as a crab crawls

2. (botany) to creep (to grow across a surface rather than upwards); to climb (to grow upwards by clinging to something)

   Mướp bò lên giàn. ― The loofah climbed the frame.

3. to slowly climb

   Chiếc xe bò lên dốc. ― The car climbed up the hill.

Compare vò.

bò

1. (informal) a unit of measurement for grain volume equivalent to the capacity of a condensed milk can

   Synonyms: ống bơ, bơ

   Vay vài bò gạo. ― Lend me some condensed milk cans' worth of rice.

Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “bò”, in Việt–Việt‎^[3] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024