# بوی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bod.

#### Noun

بوی • (boy)
* stature, height, length, size

##### Related terms

* بویلو (boylu)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: boy
* → Armenian: բոյ (boy)
* → Bulgarian: бой (boj)
* → Romanian: boi
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бо̑ј
    Latin script: bȏj

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

بوی • (boy)
* tribe, clan

##### Descendants

* Turkish: boy

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

بوی • (boy)
* (only constructed with اوتی (otu), تخمی (tohumu), or چیچگی (çiçeği)) fenugreek
    Synonyms: چمن (çemen), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: boy

### Etymology 4

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

#### Alternative forms

* بو (bö), بوجك (böcek, böcük)

#### Noun

بوی • (böy)
* wolf spider

##### Descendants

* Turkish: böcek, böcük

### Further reading

* 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, Vienna: F. Beck, pages 135–136
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, Vienna, columns 946b–947a

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* بو (bu)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [boːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [buːj], [boːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [buːj], [boːj]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [boːj]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bʊːj]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [buːj]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɵj]

### Noun

| Dari | بوی |
| Iranian Persian | بوی |
| Tajik | бӯй |
بوی • (buy)
* smell, scent

#### Derived terms

* شب‌بوی (šab-bôy)

#### Related terms

* بوی کردن (buy kardan)
* بوییدن (buyidan)

#### Descendants

* → 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 (bū)
    Hindi: बू (bū)

### Further reading

* 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, 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 (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 281