بو

From Proto-Turkic *bu (“this”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆‎ (bu, “this”), Turkish bu (“this”).

بو (bū)

1. this

• مُنْدا‎ (mundā, “here”)

بو (bū)

1. this

From Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam”). Cognate with Turkish buğu (“steam”).

بو (bū)

1. steam

بوْ (bô)

1. Arabic spelling of bô (“this”)

From Arabic أَبُو‎ (ʔabū).

بو (bū)

1. A relativizer, used to introduce a relative clause after a determinate noun

• Nöldeke, Theodor (1895), “Über einen arabischen Dialect”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎ (in German), volume 9, pages 10–11
• Reinhardt, Carl (1894) Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ʿOmān und Zanzibar, nach praktischen Gesichtspunkten für das Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin (Lehrbücher des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin; XIII)‎ (in German), Stuttgart & Berlin: W. Spemann, pages 284–285

بو • (bu)

1. (demonstrative) this

• Turkish: bu

• اول‎ (ol)
• شو‎ (şu)

بو • (bö)

1. Alternative form of بوی‎ (böy)

From Middle Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *bawd- (“to smell”), akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

بو • (bu) (plural بوها‎ (bu-hâ))

1. smell, scent

   ‏آی گل ریحون چنین بویی نداره یار گلم‎

   ây gol-e reyhun čenin bu-yi nadâre yâr golom

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• بوی‎ (buy)

• بو کردن‎ (bu kardan)
• بوییدن‎ (buyidan)

• → Urdu: بو‎ (bū)

بو • (bow)

1. (dialectal, Kazerun) father, dad, daddy
2. (dialectal, Kazerun) grandfather

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

بو (bõ)

1. mosquito

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal; Adam Baker (2013), “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

From Classical Persian بو‎ (bō, “smell, odor”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /buː/, /boː/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /buː/, /boː/

بو or بو • (bū or bo) ?

1. smell, odor, scent
2. stink, stench

• بو دار‎ (bū-dār)
• خوشبو‎ (xušbū)
  • خوشبودار‎ (xušbūdār)
• بد بو‎ (bad-bū)
  • بد بودار‎ (bad-būdār)

• “بو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “بو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “بو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “بو”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.