bos

Clipping of English Bosnian or Serbo-Croatian bòsanskī.

bos

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Bosnian.

bos

1. plural of bo

• OSB, SOB, sob, SBO, obs, BSO, obs., Obs, OBs

• (Myanmar) /bɔ˧˩/
• (Lianghe) [pɑ⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [pɔ⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [pa³¹]
• (Xiandao) [pɔ³¹]

bos

1. to have
2. to accompany, be associated with

• bos loh

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 13

Inherited from Dutch bos, from Middle Dutch bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

• Audio:

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bos (plural bosse, diminutive bossie)

1. wood, forest
2. bush, shrub
3. bunch, bundle, sheaf, bouquet

   Hy het vir my 'n bossie blomme gegee.

   He gave me a bunch/bouquet of flowers.

bos

1. superseded spelling of vos

• bones

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːz/
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): (verbal noun) /ˈboːz/, (long forms, e.g. ero'ma, ere'vy) /ˈɛrɐ/, (preterite) /ˈbiː/

From Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (“being, existence”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be”). Cognate with Breton bout, Irish bheith, Scottish Gaelic bhith, and Welsh bod.

Forms such as ov / os / yw (etc.) can be compared to Welsh wyf / wyt / yw (etc.) and are ultimately from Proto-Celtic *esti rather than *butā. Their analogous forms beginning with es- can be compared to the Welsh forms beginning with yd-.

bos (irregular)

1. to be
2. (Revived Late Cornish, future, preterite or conditional tenses) to have; to get

   My a veu own.

   I was frightened.

   (literally, “I had fright.”)

   Nei via pris da rag an hern.

   We would get a good price for the pilchards.

   Termyn aral hwei vedh moy.

   Another time you will have more.

From Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (“hut, cabin”). Cognate with Breton bod, Irish and Scottish Gaelic both, and Welsh bod.

bos f (plural bosow)

1. abode, dwelling

Presumably from English bush.

bos m (plural bosow)

1. bush

• IPA^(key): [ˈbos]

bos

1. (literary) short masculine singular of bosý

   Synonym: bosky

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

Possibly from Latin buxus (“box tree”).

bos m

1. oak tree

Unknown.

bos m

1. thigh, hind quarters

bos n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

• bosch (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle Dutch bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

bos n (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. wood, forest

   Zij ging wandelen in de bossen. ― She went walking in the woods.

2. (Suriname) jungle, tropical rainforest
   • 2013, Scrappy W, “Super Saamaka”:

     Ik woon in de stad en ik kom uit het bos / Toerisme gestudeerd en ik ben tevens kok / Mensen vinden me tof, grof, onbeschoft / en respect voor mijn buurvrouw want die noemt me os

     I live in the city and I'm from the jungle / Studied tourism and I am also a cook / People think I am harsh, rude, uncouth / and respect for my neighbour because she calls me an ox

bos m (plural bossen, diminutive bosje n)

1. bunch, bouquet

   Voor het recept hebben we een bosje radijzen nodig. ― We need a bunch of radishes for the recipe.

   Hij bracht een bosje bloemen mee. ― He brought me a bouquet of flowers.

From Latin buxus, from Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

bos m (plural bos)

1. box (tree)
2. boxwood

bos

1. masculine plural of bo

From Portuguese vos. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bo.

bos

1. you (plural second person)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbos/ [ˈbɔs]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: bos

Borrowed from Dutch bos, from Middle Dutch bosch, from Old Dutch *busc, from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

bos (plural bos-bos)

1. cluster, bunch

From English boss, from Dutch baas, from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-Germanic *baswô, masculine form of Proto-Germanic *baswǭ (“father's sister, aunt, cousin”). Doublet of bas.

bos (plural bos-bos or para bos)

1. boss, leader, head

   Synonyms: atasan, mandor, pemborong, pembesar, kepala

• “bos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• bas

From Old Irish bas, bos (“palm”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”).

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈbˠʌsˠ/^[2]

bos f (genitive singular boise, nominative plural bosa)

1. (anatomy) palm of the hand

   Synonym: dearna

2. (hurling) the flattened, curved end of a hurley

• Dual: dhá bhois

• boiseog

• → Yola: baush, bash

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bos”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *boĺ.

bos

1. empty

• N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “бос”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

From Portuguese vós (“ye”), from Old Galician-Portuguese vos, from Latin vōs (“ye”).

bos

1. you; thou (second-person singular personal pronoun)^[1]

bos f (plural bozes)

1. alternative form of boz

• bovis, bus (rare)

Irregular, for the expected **vōs/**ūs, accusative **vom, oblique stem **vov-, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws, which also gave Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Sanskrit गो (go) (nominative singular gaúḥ), and English cow.

Most likely a borrowing from Sabellic (Oscan-Umbrian), attested as Umbrian bum (acc.sg.), bue (abl.sg.), buo (gen.pl.), buf (acc.pl.) all spelling /bō-/. This was likely motivated by the fact that the expected form would have produced an undesirable homonymic clash: with vōs (“you”) in the nominative and with ovis (“sheep”) in the oblique. It's unclear whether the borrowing included the entire paradigm, or just the initial consonant.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈboːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs]

bōs m or f (genitive bovis); irregular, third declension

1. head of cattle (cow, bull, steer, or ox)
   • c. 98 CE, Tacitus, Germania 18:

     Hoc iuncti boves, hoc paratus equus, hoc data arma denuntiant.

     The yoked oxen, the harnessed steed, the gift of arms, proclaim this fact.

Third-declension noun (irregular).

¹Old Latin.

• The medial /w/ is often found spelled ⟨B⟩, normally not spelled in the form boum, and is sometimes lost in the forms bo(v)e and bo(v)ēs.

• cornigera n pl
• iūmentum (when used to pull carts); armentum (when used to pull plows)

• iūmenta (when used to pull carts); armenta (when used to pull plows)

• taurus m
• vacca f
• vitulus m

• “bōs” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bōs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 74

• “bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “On Latin bōs”, in laohutiger.wordpress.com, 2 January 2012, retrieved 16 June 2021

• (rubbish): bøss, boss
• (straw): bys

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Compare Swedish boss with the same meaning. May be related to dialectal butl.

• IPA^(key): /boːs/

bos n (definite singular boset, uncountable)

1. (Western and Southern Norway) garbage, rubbish, waste

   Synonyms: avfall, søppel

2. straw for or from a strawbed

• “bos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *bans, from Proto-Germanic *bansaz (“stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”). Cognates include Old English *bōs, Old Saxon *bōs and Old Norse báss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːs/

bōs m

1. stall, byre

• Saterland Frisian: Buus
• West Frisian: bús

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [bos]

bos f

1. alternative form of bas (“palm”)

bos m (plural boși)

1. alternative form of boss

• vos

From Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbos/

bos (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonyms: bois, bosateros

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bosъ.

• IPA^(key): /bôːs/

bȏs (Cyrillic spelling бо̑с, definite bȏsī)

1. barefoot

From Proto-Slavic *bosъ.

• IPA^(key): /bóːs/, /bɔ́s/

bȍs or bòs (not comparable)

1. barefoot

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	bós	bósa	bóso
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bós ind bósi def	bósa	bóso
genitive	bósega	bóse	bósega
dative	bósemu	bósi	bósemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	bóso	bóso
locative	bósem	bósi	bósem
instrumental	bósim	bóso	bósim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bósa	bósi	bósi
genitive	bósih	bósih	bósih
dative	bósima	bósima	bósima
accusative	bósa	bósi	bósi
locative	bósih	bósih	bósih
instrumental	bósima	bósima	bósima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bósi	bóse	bósa
genitive	bósih	bósih	bósih
dative	bósim	bósim	bósim
accusative	bóse	bóse	bósa
locative	bósih	bósih	bósih
instrumental	bósimi	bósimi	bósimi

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	bòs	bôsa	bôso
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bòs ind bôsi def	bôsa	bôso
genitive	bôsega	bôse	bôsega
dative	bôsemu	bôsi	bôsemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	bôso	bôso
locative	bôsem	bôsi	bôsem
instrumental	bôsim	bôso	bôsim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bôsa	bôsi	bôsi
genitive	bôsih	bôsih	bôsih
dative	bôsima	bôsima	bôsima
accusative	bôsa	bôsi	bôsi
locative	bôsih	bôsih	bôsih
instrumental	bôsima	bôsima	bôsima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bôsi	bôse	bôsa
genitive	bôsih	bôsih	bôsih
dative	bôsim	bôsim	bôsim
accusative	bôse	bôse	bôsa
locative	bôsih	bôsih	bôsih
instrumental	bôsimi	bôsimi	bôsimi

• “bos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

bos

1. indefinite genitive singular of bo

bos

1. passive infinitive of bo
2. present passive of bo

• bebos

• obs

• boss

Borrowed from English boss.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbos/ [ˈbos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: bos

bos (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜐ᜔) (colloquial)

1. boss, chief, head

   Synonyms: hepe, puno

2. a male term of address

• bosing

• “boss”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English boss.

bos

1. boss, overseer, master
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:26:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Nau yumi wokim ol manmeri bai ol i kamap olsem yumi yet. Bai yumi putim ol i stap bos bilong ol pis na ol pisin na bilong olgeta kain animal na bilong olgeta samting bilong graun.”

     →New International Version translation

• bikpela
• masta

• bosim

bos

1. something