bo

Imitative.

• boh
• boo

bo

1. An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     We may fairely cry bo-bo-boe; it may well make us hoarse, but it will nothing advaunce it.

Probably a shortening of boy.

bo (plural bos)

1. (US, slang) Fellow, chap, boy.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 255:

     ‘Never heard of him,’ he smiled. ‘On your way, bo.’

From Japanese 棒 (bō), from Middle Chinese 棒 (bǽwng, “staff, club”) (compare modern Chinese 棒 (bàng)).

bo (plural bos)

1. (martial arts) A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context.

• OB, Ob, Ob., ob, ob-, ob.

From Dutch boven

• IPA^(key): /bʊə/

bo

1. above

bo

1. above

From Old Occitan bon, from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Numerous cognates include French bon and Portuguese bom.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

bo (feminine bona, masculine plural bons, feminine plural bones)

1. good

The form bon is used as the masculine singular form when the adjective precedes the noun, and bo is used in all other cases.

• bonesa
• boníssim

• bondat

• bé, ben

• “bo” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

bo

1. arm wrestling

bo

1. to arm-wrestle

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bo

1. (Sette Comuni) the ... the

   Bo mèront hatzich, bo mèeront bilzich.

   The more we have, the more we want.

• “bo” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

bo

1. home, house

From Proto-Slavic *bo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo]

bo

1. (dialectal) as, since, because

• neboť

• bo in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• bo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /boː/, [b̥oːˀ]

From Old Norse bú, from Old Norse búa (“to reside”).

bo n (singular definite boet, plural indefinite boer)

1. estate (the property of a deceased person)
2. den, nest
3. abode, home

From Old Norse búa (“to reside”).

bo (imperative bo, infinitive at bo, present tense bor, past tense boede, perfect tense har boet)

1. live, reside, dwell

   Hun bor i London.

   She lives in London.

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• IPA^(key): /boː/

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• Rhymes: -oː

bo m (plural bo's, diminutive boke n)

1. (Belgium) sandwich

bo

1. fire

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

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bo (accusative singular bo-on, plural bo-oj, accusative plural bo-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter B.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

From Latin bōs, bōvem, probably through Vulgar Latin *boem.

bo m (plural bûs)

1. ox

• nemâl

• taur
• vacje

• bon
• boo (dated)

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese bõo, from Latin bonus. Cognate with Portuguese bom and Spanish bueno.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo/

bo m (feminine singular boa, masculine plural bos, feminine plural boas)

1. good

   Antonyms: malo, mao

• aboar
• boanza
• Bonome
• Boo

• ben

• “bo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “bo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese vós. Cognates with Kabuverdianu bo.

bo

1. you (second person singular).
2. you (second person plural)

From Portuguese bom. Cognates with Kabuverdianu bon.

bo

1. good

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo/

bo

1. water
2. liquid

• Lynette Frances Oates, A Tentative Description of the Gunwinggu Language (1964)
• Steven and Narelle Etherington, Kunwinjku Kunwok: A Short Introduction to Kunwinjku Language and Society (third edition, 1998)

bo

1. Alternative spelling of boh

bo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ボ

From Portuguese vós.

bo

1. you (second person singular).

From Sanskrit बहु (bahu), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰn̥ǵʰús. Cognate with Hindi बहुत (bahut).

bo

1. very

bo

1. many, a lot

bo

1. for

• ji bo
• bo çi

bo (Zhuyin ˙ㄅㄛ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 卜
2. Pinyin transcription of 啵
3. Pinyin transcription of 噃
4. Pinyin transcription of 蔔

bo

1. Nonstandard spelling of bō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of bó.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bǒ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of bò.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

bo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
• Mawes Swadesh List

bo

1. pig

• Corinna Handschuh, A typology of marked-S languages

Borrowed from Middle Low German behof (compare with behov)

bo (indeclinable) (idiomatic use only)

1. (uncountable, usually with ha) a need

   Jeg har bo for en hammer.

   I could use a hammer.

A noun not commonly used.

• behøve
• trenge
• ha bruk for

• behov

From Danish bo, from Old Norse bú (“settled area, town”) (compare alternative form bu). Akin to bod (“store room, booth”) and the verb bo (“to live”).

• bu (Nynorsk also)

bo n (definite singular boet, indefinite plural bo, definite plural boa or boene)

1. one's home (mainly idiomatic)

   De giftet seg og satte bo.

   They married and settled down/built their home.

2. estate

   Å skifte et bo.

   To divide an estate.

• (one's home): bolig, hjem/heim
• (estate): eiendom, gods

See combined section below.

From Danish bo, from Old Norse búa (“to prepare, finish, make preparations, equip”), cognate with Old English būan, Old Frisian buwa, Old Saxon būan and Old High German būan (whence German bauen).

• bu (Nynorsk also)

bo (imperative bo, present tense bor, simple past bodde, past participle bodd, present participle boende)

1. to live (have permanent residence), stay

   Hvor bor du (hen)?

   Where do you live?

   Jeg vet hvor du bor.

   I know where you live.

   Hvor lenge blir du boende.

   How long will you be staying?

2. to be, to dwell, to be in

   Husk at all skjønnhet på jord bor i de evige ord: Jeg elsker deg.

   Remember that all beauty on Earth dwells in those eternal words: I love you.

   (Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)

   Du aner ikke hva som virkelig bor i henne.

   You have no idea what she's really like.

   (literally: "you have no idea what really dwells in her")

• (to live, have residence): holde hus (holde til huse), holde til husere, kampere, leve, losjere, oppholde seg, residere, tilbringe
• (to dwell in, be in): finnes, rommes, skjule seg, være, være til stede

(Noun and verb)

• “bo” in The Ordnett Dictionary
• “bo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• search on "bo" on Ordtak.no - web site containing quotes and citations

From Middle Low German behof (compare behov)

bo (indeclinable) (idiomatic use only)

1. (uncountable, usually with ha) a need

   Eg har bo for ein hammar.

   I could use a hammer.

A noun not commonly used.

• behøve
• trenge
• turve
• ha bruk for

• behov

• “bo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bú (West dialect)

bo n

1. (East dialect) dwelling

From Portuguese vós and Spanish vos and Kabuverdianu bo.

bo

1. you (second person singular).

From Proto-Slavic *bo.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ/

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bo

1. because
2. or (else)

   Wstawaj już, bo spóźnisz się do szkoły!

   Get up now or you'll be late at school!

• bo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• bo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /bóː/

bọ̑

1. third-person singular future of bíti

• vo

bo

1. (Uruguay, colloquial) hey, mate, dude

• che

• IPA^(key): /bo/

Contraction of ben and o.

bo

1. Marker for the irrealis mood.

From English bow.

bo

1. bow, arch

• alenbo (“rainbow”)

• IPA^(key): [buː]

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From Old Norse búa, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.

bo

1. (intransitive) live; dwell; to have permanent residence

   Jag vill bo i en stor stad.

   I want to live in a big city.

bo n

1. nest; the place where certain animals live, in particular birds.

   fågelbo

   bird’s nest

2. a home (the inventory that turns a place into a home)
   • 1893, Elias Sehlstedt, Visa

     Litet bo jag sätta vill ...

     A little home is what I want ...

3. c (only in compounds) a person living in given city (e.g. Londonbo) or way (sambo, särbo)

• The use of "bo" as a shorthand for "bostad" and "boende" (housing) goes back at least to the 1920s, for example in the name of trade expos like "Bygge och Bo" (1925).

Alternative form for the definite singular: bot/bots.

• gryt
• kula
• näste
• råtthål

bo

1. I

• narrar

• N.J.B. Plomley (1976) A word-list of the Tasmanian aboriginal languages‎

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bos, bovem.

bo m (invariable)

1. ox

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˧˧]

From French bore.

bo

1. boron

bo

1. Alternative form of boa (“to leave a tip”)

• byddo

bo

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of bod

-bo

1. Combining stem of bona.

-bo

1. Combining stem of bona.