boa

From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊə

boa (plural boas or boae)

1. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru.
2. (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers.

• boa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• ABO, AOB, Abo, BAO, Bao, OAB, Oba., a.o.b., abo, bao, oba

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

boa f (plural boes)

1. boa (snake)

• “boa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “boa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

boa c (singular definite boaen, plural indefinite boaer)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (item of clothing)

• boaslange

• boaslange
• fjerboa
• kongeboa

• “boa” in Den Danske Ordbog

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boa m (plural boa's, diminutive boaatje n)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

boa (accusative singular boan, plural boaj, accusative plural boajn)

1. Related by marriage (rarely used; bo- is usually a prefix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːɑ/, [ˈbo̞ːɑ]
• Hyphenation: bo‧a

boa

1. boa (snake)

• boakäärme
• kuningasboa
• smaragdipuuboa

• abo

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.a/

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boa m (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

• “boa” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

See the etymology of the main entry.

boa

1. feminine singular of bo

• “boa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

boa m (invariable)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

boa f (plural boe)

1. buoy

boa

1. moon

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 88-89

boa f (genitive boae); first declension

1. A large snake native to Roman Italy.
2. A disease, the measles or smallpox.

First-declension noun.

boā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of boō

• boa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

boa

1. lie; falsehood

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.a/

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From Latin boa.

boa m anim (indeclinable)

1. boa (snake)

From French boa, from Latin boa.

boa n (indeclinable)

1. boa (feather boa)

• boa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.ɐ/

From Old Portuguese bõa, from Latin bona, feminine of bonus (“good”).

boa

1. Feminine singular of adjective bom.

• boa noite
• boa tarde
• numa boa
• embora (from "em boa hora")
• boa gente / gente boa
• boa vida / vida boa
• de boa
• boas

boa f (plural boas)

1. an interesting story, joke or news

boa!

1. good one!, well done!, all right! (expresses approval, applause or admiration)

From New Latin Boa, from Latin boa (“large Italian snake species”).

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (any snake of the Boa genus)

• jiboia

• “boa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Latin boa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboa/

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf made from feathers)

• “boa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

boa c

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

From French pourboire (“tip”, literally “fordrink”).

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

boa

1. to leave a tip; to give gratuity

   tiền boa

   a tip