boh

• bo
• boo

Imitative. See boo.

boh

1. An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
   • 1829, Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, VI:

     We start and are afraid when we hear one cry Boh!

• BHO, HBO, Hob, hob

From Proto-Chamic *bɔh, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *buah, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *buah, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buaq, from Proto-Austronesian *buaq.

boh

1. fruit (part of plant)
2. fruit (food)

boh

1. Classifier for anything generally concretely big and has volume.

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

From Proto-Tai *boːᴮ (“father”). Cognate with Thai พ่อ (pɔ̂ɔ), Northern Thai ᨻᩴ᩵ᩬ, Lao ພໍ່ (phǭ), Lü ᦗᦸᧈ (poa¹), Shan ပေႃႈ (pōa), Ahom 𑜆𑜦𑜡 (poo) or 𑜆𑜦𑜨𑜡 (peoaa), Zhuang boh or box.

boh

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ/

boh

1. indicates disdain, contempt, contradiction or incredulity

   —Éche un gran presidente. —Boh! Que vai ser!

   —He is a great president, you know? —Bah! No way!

• “boh” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boh” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• bo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo/
• Rhymes: -o

boh

1. dunno, an interjection expressing doubt or indecision

   Puoi pagare il mio biglietto? Boh, devo vedere se ho i soldi. Can you pay for my ticket? I don't know, I'll need to check if I have the money.

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

• IPA^(key): /bɔx/

boh m (genitive singular boha, nominative plural bohovia, genitive plural bohov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. god

• Boh m
• bohyňa f
• božstvo n
• bôžik m

• boh in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• box

From Proto-Tai *boːᴮ (“father”). Cognate with Thai พ่อ (pɔ̂ɔ), Northern Thai ᨻᩴ᩵ᩬ, Lao ພໍ່ (phǭ), Lü ᦗᦸᧈ (poa¹), Shan ပေႃႈ (pōa), Ahom 𑜆𑜦𑜡 (poo) or 𑜆𑜦𑜨𑜡 (peoaa), Bouyei boh.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /po˧/
• Tone numbers: bo⁶
• Hyphenation: boh

boh (old orthography boƅ, Sawndip forms 𠇑, 佈, 扶, 仆, 卜, 𭶺)

1. father