buho

buhò (diminutive buhô-buhò)

1. crevice, hole, opening, perforation, pit, vent

• bufo

From Late Latin būfus (“owl”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuo/ [ˈbu.o]
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buho m (plural buhos)

1. owl
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 108r:

     […] la uertud de figura de mugier q́ ua antella un ninno. ⁊ tiene ſolos pies un buho, ⁊ ſobre ſu cabeça eſtas figuras de letras.

     […] the virtue of the figure of a woman and a child before her, and under her feet an owl, and over her head the shapes of these letters.

• Spanish: búho

buho

1. vocative singular of buha

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuo/ [ˈbu.o]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buho m (plural buhos)

1. superseded spelling of búho, deprecated in 1952 by the Royal Spanish Academy

• boho, bouo, boo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• buo, buwo — obsolete

From Proto-Austronesian *buluq (“type of slender bamboo; Schizostachyum spp.”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bolo, Kapampangan bulu, Hanunoo bulo, Aklanon bueo, Cebuano bulo, Maranao bolo, Malay buluh, and Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸꦃ (wuluh).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuhoʔ/ [ˈbuː.hoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uhoʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buhò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ)

1. a type of slender bamboo

• “buho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 142: “Caña) Boo (pp) del gada liſa y de largos cañutos, ſiruẽ de haçer eſteras ytabiqeus en ſus caſas deſtos, pican las enteras y deſpues las abren y tejenlas.”