بوی

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See also: بوى, پوی, and بوے

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Turkic *bod.

Noun

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بوی (boy)

  1. stature, height, length, size
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Descendants
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  • Turkish: boy
  • Armenian: բոյ (boy)
  • Bulgarian: бой (boj)
  • Romanian: boi
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бо̑ј
    Latin script: bȏj

Etymology 2

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Noun

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بوی (boy)

  1. tribe, clan
Descendants
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Etymology 3

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From Proto-Oghuz, from Persian بوی (bôy, smell).

Noun

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بوی (boy)

  1. (only constructed with اوتی (otu), تخمی (tohumu), or چیچگی (çiçeği)) fenugreek
    Synonyms: چمن (çemen), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)
Descendants
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Etymology 4

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From Proto-Turkic *bȫg. Cognate with Azerbaijani böyə.

Alternative forms

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Noun

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بوی (böy)

  1. wolf spider
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Further reading

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  • Hauenschild, Ingeborg (2003) Die Tierbezeichnungen bei Mahmud al-Kaschgari: eine Untersuchung aus sprach- und kulturhistorischer Sicht (Turcologica; 53) (in German), Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, →ISBN, pages 70–71
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, pages 135–136
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 295b
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 946b–947a

Persian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? bōy
Dari reading? būy, bōy
Iranian reading? buy
Tajik reading? büy

Noun

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Dari بوی
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯй

بوی (buy)

  1. smell, scent

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Chagatai: بوی (boy)
  • Kipchak: بوی (boy)
  • Proto-Oghuz: *boy
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: بوی (boy, fenugreek)
      • Ottoman Turkish: بوی (boy, fenugreek)
        • Turkish: boy (fenugreek)
  • Hindustani:
    Urdu: بو ()
    Hindi: बू ()

Further reading

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  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 947a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوی”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[5] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 281