bò
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bo"
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ/
Mandarin
Romanization
bò (Zhuyin ㄅㄛˋ)
- Pinyin transcription of 孹
- Pinyin transcription of 挀
- Pinyin transcription of 播
- Pinyin transcription of 擘
- Pinyin transcription of 柏
- Pinyin transcription of 栢
- Pinyin transcription of 檗
- Pinyin transcription of 疈
- Pinyin transcription of 簸
- Pinyin transcription of 繴
- Pinyin transcription of 薄
- Pinyin transcription of 薜
- Pinyin transcription of 蘖
- Pinyin transcription of 蘗
- Pinyin transcription of 譒
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish bó, from Proto-Celtic *bāus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poː/
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bò | bà |
Genitive | bà | bò |
Dative | boin / bò | bà |
Vocative | bhò | bhà |
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “bó”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓɔ˦˩]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“zebu; bovine”).
Noun
(classifier con) bò (圃, 䊇, 𤙭, 𤞨, 𩟢)
- a Southern Yellow bovine, as opposed to a trâu (“water buffalo”)
- trâu bò
- water buffaloes and Southern Yellow cattle
- thịt bò
- Southern Yellow beef
- (by extension) a bovine, typically with horns that do not curve like those of a water buffalo
- bò sữa
- a dairy cow
- nuôi bò
- to raise cattle
- chăn bò
- to tend oxen; to graze oxen
- (informal) a unit for measuring a volume of grain equivalent to the capacity of an empty condensed milk can
- Vay vài bò gạo.
- Lend me some condensed milk cans' worth of rice.
- Synonyms: ống bơ, bơ
Etymology 2
From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“to crawl; to drag”).
Verb
- 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
- (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.
- to slowly climb
- Chiếc xe bò lên dốc.
- The car climbed up the hill.
References
"bò" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
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