bov

See also: BOV and բով

Translingual

Symbol

bov

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tuwuli.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tuwuli terms

Danish

Alternative forms

• boug (nautical, obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Norse bógr (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). Cognate with English bough (“branch”), German Bug (“animal shoulder; ship bow”), and Dutch boeg (“ship bow”). In the maritime sense, the Danish word is influenced by Dutch (like English bow).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʌwˀ]

Noun

bov c (singular definite boven, plural indefinite bove)

1. shoulder (of an animal)
2. bow (front of a boat or ship)

Declension

Declension of bov

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bov	boven	bove	bovene
genitive	bovs	bovens	boves	bovenes

Further reading

• “bov” in Den Danske Ordbog

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian բով (bov).

Noun

bov m (nominative plural bova)

1. oven, stove

Further reading

• Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870), “bov”, in Études sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla, page 187
• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o bov, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 91

Romansh

Etymology

From Latin bōs, bovem, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōws.

Noun

bov m (plural bovs)

1. ox

Salar

Etymology

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Noun

bov (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. mother's brother, maternal uncle

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːv/

Noun

bov c (colloquial)

1. a criminal, chiefly a thief or robber

   Björnbusarna är bovar

   The Beagle Boys are criminals / crooks [might give an idea of the tone]

   jaga bovar

   catch [hunt] criminals

   Bovar och banditer, ni som sitter här och skiter, om ni något hjärta har, lämna lite papper kvar

   Crooks and bandits, you who sit here and shit, if you have a heart, leave some paper [left] [common outhouse poetry]

2. a crook (dishonest, immoral, etc. person)

   Synonym: skurk

   1. a villain, a culprit (person or thing doing bad, in some context)
   2. (idiomatic, in "boven i dramat" (the villain of the drama)) the culprit, the villain of the piece (the person or thing that is the cause of trouble)
3. (figuratively) a thief (something that takes away something inordinately or the like)

   Synonym: tjuv

   energibov

   energy thief

Declension

Declension of bov

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bov	bovs
	definite	boven	bovens
plural	indefinite	bovar	bovars
	definite	bovarna	bovarnas

Derived terms

• miljöbov

See also

• bandit
• brottsling
• buse
• förbrytare
• gangster
• kriminell
• rånare
• rövare
• skurk
• tjuv

References

• “bov”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bov”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “bov”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bov/

Noun

bov (genitive bova, plural bovs)

1. bowl

Declension

Declension of bov

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bov	bovs
Genitive	bova	bovas
Dative	bove	boves
Accusative	bovi	bovis
Predicative1	bovu	bovus
Vocative	o bov	o bovs

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.