bov

bov

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tuwuli.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tuwuli terms

From Old Norse bógr (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). Cognate with English bough (“branch”), German Bug (“animal shoulder; ship bow”), and Dutch boeg (“ship bow”). In the maritime sense, the Danish word is influenced by Dutch (like English bow).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌwˀ]

bov c (singular definite boven, plural indefinite bove)

1. shoulder (of an animal)
2. bow (front of a boat or ship)

• “bov” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Old Armenian բով (bov).^[1][2]

bov m (nominative plural bova)

1. oven, stove

• Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870) “bov”, in Études sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla, page 187
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o bov, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 91

From Latin bōs, bovem, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōws.

bov m (plural bovs)

1. ox

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bov (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. mother's brother, maternal uncle

From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.

• IPA^(key): /buːv/

bov c (colloquial)

1. a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber

   Björnbusarna är bovar

   The Beagle Boys are criminals / crooks [might give an idea of the tone]

   jaga bovar

   catch [hunt] criminals

   Bovar och banditer, ni som sitter här och skiter, om ni något hjärta har, lämna lite papper kvar

   Crooks and bandits, you who sit here and shit, if you have a heart, leave some paper [left] [common outhouse poetry]

2. a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person)

   Synonym: skurk

   1. a villain, a culprit (person or thing doing bad, in some context)
   2. (idiomatic, in "boven i dramat" (the villain of the drama)) the culprit, the villain of the piece (the person or thing that is the cause of trouble)
3. (figuratively) a thief (something that takes away something inordinately or the like)

   Synonym: tjuv

   energibov

   energy thief

• miljöbov

• bandit
• brottsling
• buse
• förbrytare
• gangster
• kriminell
• rånare
• rövare
• skurk
• tjuv

• bov in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bov in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bov in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• IPA^(key): /bov/

bov (nominative plural bovs)

1. bowl