# bou
## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bouwen, from Middle Dutch bouwen, from Old Dutch buwan, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bœu̯/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bou (present bou, present participle bouende, past participle gebou)
* to build

#### Derived terms

* bouer
* gebou

### Noun

bou (uncountable)
* building, construction (activity of building)
* structure

## Äiwoo
### Verb

bou
* to fear

### References

* Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Daco-Romanian bou.

### Noun

bou m (plural boi, definite singular boulu)
* ox

#### Related terms

* buin
* buits / buici
* buyear

#### See also

* tavru
* vacã

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɔw]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔw

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin bovem.

#### Noun

bou m (plural bous)
* ox
* bullock, steer
* the edible crab (Cancer pagurus)
    Synonym: bou de mar

##### Derived terms

* bovada
* bovatge
* bover
* passar bou per bèstia grossa
* ull de bou

### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek βόλος (bólos).

#### Noun

bou m (uncountable)
* seine fishing

##### Derived terms

* bover

##### Descendants

* → Galician: bou

### Further reading

* “bou” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bou” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

From Hokkien 武夷 (Bú-î). Compare English bohea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: boue

### Noun

bou m (plural bous)
* type of Chinese tea

## Galician
### Etymology

From Catalan bou, idem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbow/

### Noun

bou m (plural bous)
* (fishing) pair trawling
* (fishing) trawler used for pair trawling
    Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou. [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow][A Galician tongue-twister]: If I'll go to Bueu in a bou, I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.

### See also

* Pair trawling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* bou (pesca) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{ca}$

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bou”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bou”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bou”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Japanese
### Romanization

bou
* Rōmaji transcription of ぼう

## Marshallese
### Alternative forms

* boub
* bouk

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠou]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠewiw/
* Bender phonemes: {bȩwiw}

### Noun

bou
* a dragonfly

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin bovem.

### Noun

bou m
* ox

### References

* Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/bou

## Middle High German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈbou̯/

### Noun

bou m or n
* Alternative form of bū

#### Declension
### References

* "bou" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Middle High German wō, wā, wār, from Old High German hwār, from Proto-West Germanic *hwār, from Proto-Germanic *hwar (“where”). Cognate with German wo, English where.

### Adverb

bou
* where

### References

* “bou” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* bueu

### Etymology

From Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔw/

### Noun

bou m (oblique plural bous, nominative singular bous, nominative plural bou)
* ox

#### Descendants

* Auvergnat: beu, bueu
* Gascon: buèu, bueu, beu, bieu, büu
* Languedocien: buòu, biòu
* Provençal: buou, bou
* Vivaro-Alpine: buou

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* боу (bou) — post-1930s (Moldovan Cyrillic spelling

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin bōvem, accusative singular of bōs, possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *bovum. Compare Aromanian bou.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bow/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ow

### Noun

bou m (plural boi)
* ox
* (colloquial) idiot
    Synonyms: idiot, tâmpit, prost

#### Derived terms

* bouț
* boulean
* boușor

#### Related terms

* boar
* bovin

### See also

* vacă
* taur
* vițel

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [buː]
* (Southern Scots) IPA: [bʌu]
* (North Northern Scots) IPA: [puː]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bú (“farming, a farm, farm stock”).

#### Noun

bou (plural bous)
* (agriculture) stock or herd of cattle; farmhouse, village

##### Derived terms

* bou-stane (“earthfast stone in the foundation of a building”)
* bouhoose (“cattle shed”)
* bouin (“lease of cattle and land”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse bógr.

#### Noun

bou (plural bous)
* (nautical) bow

### Etymology 3

From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, from Proto-West Germanic *bogō.

#### Verb

bou (third-person singular simple present bous, present participle bouin, simple past boued, past participle boued)
* to bow, bend

##### Derived terms

* beck an bou (“to bow and scrape, curry favour”)
* bou-backit (“hump-backed”)
* bou-end (“the first net shot after the buoy from a herring-boat”)
* bou-hocht (“bandy-legged”)
* boued twafauld (“bent over”)

### Etymology 4

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

#### Noun

bou (plural bous)
* louse

##### Alternative forms

* bo

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

bou (plural bous)
* Alternative form of bo

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan bou. Doublet of buey and bife.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbou/ [ˈbou̯]
* Audio (Costa Rica):(file)
* Rhymes: -ou
* Syllabification: bou

### Noun

bou m (uncountable)
* seine fishing

### Noun

bou m (plural boues)
* boat for seine fishing, seiner

### Further reading

* “bou”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Ternate
### Etymology

Likely to ultimately be from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bahu, *bahuq; compare Proto-Oceanic *bou (“smell, odor”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbo.u/

### Noun

bou
* an odor, an unpleasant smell

### Verb

bou
* (stative) to smell bad, to stink

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh