# bois
## English
### Noun

bois
* plural of boi

### Anagrams

* BIOS, Ibos, SIBO, bios, obis, sibo

## French
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bwa/ ~ /bwɑ/

#### Noun

bois m (countable and uncountable, plural bois)
* (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
* (countable) wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
* (countable) wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
* antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
* (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind
    Coordinate term: cuivre
* (art) wooden engraving, woodcut
* (golf) wood (type of club)
* (nautical, dated) hull

##### Derived terms

* Belle au bois dormant
* bois de bombarde
* bois de chauffage
* bois de chauffe
* bois de corail
* bois de joli cœur
* bois de justice
* bois de mangue marron
* bois d’œuvre
* bois maigre
* boisé
* charbon de bois
* chèque en bois
* croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer
* cuillère en bois
* déménager à la cloche de bois
* être dans les poux de bois
* faire feu de tout bois
* faire flèche de tout bois
* gueule de bois
* hautbois
* jambe de bois
* langue de bois
* petit bois
* pousseur de bois
* Robin des Bois
* rose de bois
* rose des bois
* sous-bois
* toucher du bois
* trouver visage de bois
* volée de bois vert

##### Related terms

* buisson

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bwa/
* Homophone: boit

#### Verb

bois
* inflection of boire:
** first/second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular present imperative

### Further reading

* “bois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* bios

## Galician
### Noun

bois
* plural of boi

## Irish
### Noun

bois
* inflection of bos:
** dative singular
** dual all cases

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Maranao
### Etymology

From buis.

### Noun

bois
* tax

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* bosc

### Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus, borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboi̯s/

### Noun

bois oblique singular, m (oblique plural bois, nominative singular bois, nominative plural bois)
* woodland; woods

#### Derived terms

* buison
* boschage

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: boo
* Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
* Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
** French: bois
*** Haitian Creole: bwa
* Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
* Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
* Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
* Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
* Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
* ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
** Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
*** French: bouquet
**** → English: bouquet
** Gallo: bóqèt
** Norman: boûquet
** Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
** Walloon: boukèt

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbojs/ [ˈboɪ̯s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbojs/ [ˈboɪ̯s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈbojʃ/ [ˈboɪ̯ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbojʃ/
* Hyphenation: bois

### Noun

bois
* plural of boi

## Sambali
### Etymology

From buis.

### Noun

boís
* tax

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* vois

### Etymology

From Latin vōbīs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbois/, [ˈboː.i.zĭ]

### Pronoun

bois (possessive bostru)
* you (plural), ye
    Synonyms: bos, bosateros

### See also

* nois (“we”)

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

bois
* dative singular of bas

#### Usage notes

* Also used as nominative.