# bú
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuː]
* Audio:(file)

### Interjection

bú
* moo (sound of a cow)

#### Related terms

* bučet

### Further reading

* “bú”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “bú”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbuː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -buː

### Etymology 1

From a Turkic language, compare Turkish bun (“boredom, worry”).

#### Noun

bú (usually uncountable, plural búk)
* (literary) sorrow, grief

##### Derived terms

* bús (with several more derivations)
* búbánat
* búfelejtő
* búkergető
* búvalbélelt, (vulgar) búvalbaszott
* honfibú
* mélabú

### Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia.

#### Interjection

bú
* moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)
    Synonym: mú
** 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎, archived from the original on 19 October 2018:Bú, bú, bú, / boci szomorú, / de hogy feszít / tyúkjai közt a kukurikú.Moo, moo, moo / the little calf is blue, / but how proud is / among his hens the cock-a-doodle-doo.

### Further reading

* (sorrow, grief): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (moo): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (archaic, folksy: synonym of bújik (“to hide [oneself]”)): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* bú in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puː/
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

bú n (genitive singular bús, nominative plural bú)
* housekeeping
* farm
    Synonym: býli
* estate

#### Related terms

* búa

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bˠuː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish buga.

#### Noun

bú m (genitive singular bú, nominative plural búnna)
* hyacinth

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
bú
búnna
vocative
a bhú
a bhúnna
genitive
bú
búnna
dative
bú
búnna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an bú
na búnna
genitive
an bhú
na mbúnna
dative
leis an mbú don bhú
leis na búnna :

##### Alternative forms

* bugha, butha

##### Derived terms

* bú fíniúna (“grape-hyacinth”)
* bú muc (“(wild) hyacinth, bluebell”)

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

#### Interjection

bú!
* boo!

### Mutation

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

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Mandarin
### Alternative forms

* bu — nonstandard

### Romanization

bú (bu$^2$, Zhuyin ㄅㄨˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼 / 继
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轎 / 轿
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸 / 朴

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buː/

### Noun

bú
* vocative/accusative plural of bó

### Mutation

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

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *būą.

### Noun

bú n
* (Old West Norse) dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home

#### Related terms

* búa
* bo (Old East Norse)

## Slovak
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [buː]

### Interjection

bú
* moo (sound of a cow)

### Further reading

* “bú”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [ɓu˧˥]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [ɓu˦]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

bú
* goby
    Synonym: pja bú

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bú
* fish trap

### References

* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *buːʔ ~ *puːʔ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ɓuːʔ (“to suck”). Cognate with Khmer បៅ (baw), Pnar bu, Khmu [Cuang] buʔ, Shwe Palaung ဘူ, Gata' buˀ. Doublet of vú via a prefixed form.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɓu˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɓʊw˨˩˦]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɓʊw˦˥]
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Verb

bú • (𪜛)
* to suck (at a breast) to consume milk

#### Derived terms

* bú fame
* bú mớm
* bú mớm bù trì