# بو
## Karakhanid
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bu (“this”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆 (bu, “this”), Turkish bu (“this”).

#### Pronoun

بو (bū)
* this

##### Related terms

* مُنْدا (mundā, “here”)

#### Determiner

بو (bū)
* this

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam”). Cognate with Turkish buğu (“steam”).

#### Noun

بو (bū)
* steam

## Khalaj
### Pronoun

بوْ (bô) (definite accusative موُنؽ, plural بوُللار)
* Arabic spelling of bô (“this”)

## Khowar
### Etymology

From Sanskrit बहु (bahu), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰn̥ǵʰús. Cognate with Kalasha bo.

### Adjective

بو (bo)
* much, very

### References

* Elena Bashir, Maula Nigah, Rahmat Karim Baig (2022) “بو”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎, second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 2023-01-19.

## Omani Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic أَبُو (ʔabū).

### Conjunction

بو (bū)
* A relativizer, used to introduce a relative clause after a determinate noun

### References

* Nöldeke, Theodor (1895) “Über einen arabischen Dialect”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 9, pages 10–11
* Reinhardt, Carl (1894) Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ʿOmān und Zanzibar, nach praktischen Gesichtspunkten für das Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin (Lehrbücher des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin; XIII)‎ (in German), Stuttgart & Berlin: W. Spemann, pages 284–285

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bū (“this”).

### Pronoun

بو • (bu)
* (demonstrative) this

#### Descendants

* Turkish: bu

#### See also

* اول (ol)
* شو (şu)

### Noun

بو • (bö)
* Alternative form of بوی (böy)

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *bawd- (“to smell”), which is perhaps a semantic specialization of Proto-Iranian *bawd- (“to feel, sense”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). Akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [boː], [buː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [boː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bʊː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [buː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɵ]

#### Noun

| Dari | بو |
| Iranian Persian | بو |
| Tajik | бӯ |
بو • (bu) (plural بوها (bu-hâ))
* smell, scent
    آی گل ریحون چنین بویی نداره یار گلمây gol-e reyhun čenin bu-yi nadâre yâr golomAh, even the basil flower doesn't smell like this, my dear friend.

##### Alternative forms

* بوی (buy)

##### Related terms

* بو کردن (bu kardan)
* بوییدن (buyidan)

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: বু (bu)
* → Urdu: بو (bū)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Seems like a "papa"-type word.”)

#### Noun

بو • (bow)
* (dialectal, Kazerun) father, dad, daddy
* (dialectal, Kazerun) grandfather

### References

* Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 14-6

## Southeast Pashayi
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

بو (bõ)
* mosquito

### Further reading

* Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal, Adam Baker (2013) “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

## Urdu
### Etymology

From Classical Persian بو (bō, “smell, odor”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /buː/, /boː/

### Noun

بو • (bū or bo) ?
* smell, odor, scent
* stink, stench

#### Hyponyms

* بو دار (bū-dār)
* خوشبو (xušbū)
** خوشبودار (xušbūdār)
* بد بو (bad-bū)
** بد بودار (bad-būdār)

### References

* “بو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “بو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* “بو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.