bú

• bu

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuː]

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bú

1. moo (sound of a cow)

• “bú”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bú”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuː]

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• Rhymes: -buː

From a Turkic language, compare Turkish bun (“boredom, worry”).

bú (usually uncountable, plural búk)

1. (literary) sorrow, grief

An onomatopoeia.

bú

1. moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)

   Synonym: mú

   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:

     Bú, bú, bú, / boci szomorú, / de hogy feszít / tyúkjai közt a kukurikú.

     Moo, moo, moo / the little calf is blue, / but how proud is / among his hens the cock-a-doodle-doo.

• (sorrow, grief): bú in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (moo): bú in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (archaic, folksy: synonym of bújik (“to hide [oneself]”)): bú in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• bú in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Old Norse bú (“farming, a farm, farm stock”).

• IPA^(key): /puː/
• Rhymes: -uː

bú n (genitive singular bús, nominative plural bú)

1. housekeeping
2. farm

   Synonym: býli

3. estate

• búa

• IPA^(key): /bˠuː/

From Old Irish buga.

bú m (genitive singular bú, nominative plural búnna)

1. hyacinth

• bugha, butha

• bú fíniúna (“grape-hyacinth”)
• bú muc (“(wild) hyacinth, bluebell”)

Onomatopoeic.

bú!

1. boo!

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• bu — nonstandard

bú (bu², Zhuyin ㄅㄨˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼 / 继
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轎 / 轿
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸 / 朴

• IPA^(key): /buː/

bú

1. vocative/accusative plural of bó

From Proto-Germanic *būą.

bú n

1. (Old West Norse) dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home

• búa
• bo (Old East Norse)

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [buː]

bú

1. moo (sound of a cow)

• “bú”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓu˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓu˦]

bú

1. goby

   Synonym: pja bú

bú

1. fish trap

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓu˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˦˥]

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Inherited from Proto-Vietic *buːʔ ~ *puːʔ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɓuːʔ (“to suck”). Cognate with Khmer បៅ (baw), Pnar bu, Khmu [Cuang] buʔ, Shwe Palaung ဘူ, Gata' buˀ. Doublet of vú via the prefixed proto-form.

bú • (𪜛)

1. to suck; to suckle
2. (informal, humorous) to drink

   Bú hết cốc nước đi còn đi!

   [Hurry and] finish drinking the cup so we can go!

See vú. This form was unaffected by lenition after the loss of prefixal *k-.

bú

1. North Central Vietnam form of vú (“breast”)