بوی

See also: بوى‎, پوی‎, and بوے‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bod.

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. stature, height, length, size
Descendants
  • Turkish: boy
  • → Armenian: բոյ (boy)
  • → Bulgarian: бой (boj)
  • → Romanian: boi
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бо̑ј
    Latin script: bȏj

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. tribe, clan
Descendants

Etymology 3

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

Noun

بوی • (boy)

  1. (only constructed with اوتی‎ (otu), تخمی‎ (tohumu), or چیچگی‎ (çiçeği)) fenugreek
    Synonyms: چمن‎ (çemen), حلبت‎ (hulbet), حلبه‎ (hulbe)
Descendants

Etymology 4

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

Alternative forms

Noun

بوی • (böy)

  1. wolf spider
Descendants

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, column 946b–947a

Persian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari Persian) IPA(key): /buːj/, /boːj/
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): /boːj/

Noun
Dari بوی
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯй (büy)

بوی • (buy)

  1. smell, scent

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

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, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, page 281
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