bov

See also: BOV and բով

Translingual

Symbol

bov

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

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Tuwuli terms

Danish

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌwˀ]

Noun

bov c (singular definite boven, plural indefinite bove)

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

Declension

Declension of bov

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bov	boven	bove	bovene
genitive	bovs	bovens	boves	bovenes

Further reading

• “bov” in Den Danske Ordbog

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian բով (bov).

Noun

bov m (nominative plural bova)

1. oven, stove

Further reading

• 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

Romansch

Etymology

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

Noun

bov m (plural bovs)

1. ox

Salar

Etymology

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Noun

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

1. mother's brother, maternal uncle

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːv/

Noun

bov c

1. (colloquial) criminal, chiefly a thief or a robber

Declension

Declension of bov

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bov	bovs
	definite	boven	bovens
plural	indefinite	bovar	bovars
	definite	bovarna	bovarnas

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bov/

Noun

bov (nominative plural bovs)

1. bowl

Declension

declension of bov

	singular	plural
nominative	bov	bovs
genitive	bova	bovas
dative	bove	boves
accusative	bovi	bovis
vocative 1	o bov!	o bovs!
predicative 2	bovu	bovus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only