bò

• bå (Bolognese)

bò m (plural bō)

1. (Carpi) cattle

From French bord.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ/

bò

1. side

bò

1. by, alongside, near, next to

• kibò

• bo – nonstandard

bò (bo⁴, Zhuyin ㄅㄛˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 孹
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 挀
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 播
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擘
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柏
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 栢
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檗
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 疈
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 簸
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繴
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薄
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 薜
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘖
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘗
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譒
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 北

• bó

From Old Irish bó, from Proto-Celtic *bāus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

• IPA^(key): /poː/

bò f (genitive singular bà, plural bà)

1. cow

• mart

• bò mhaol odhar agus bò odhar mhaol
• math na bà

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “bò”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bó”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˦˩]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔ˨˩]

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From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“zebu; bovine”). Probably ultimately of imitative origin.

Compare Vietnamese ụm bò (“moo”) and items such as Malay lembu, Khmu [Cuang] lmboʔ and Cebuano amba, which are superficially similar but lack straightforward correspondence with the Vietnamese word.

(classifier con) bò • (𤞨 - 𩟢, 𤙭, 䊇)

1. (zoology) a Southern Yellow zebu (a bovine of the breed Feng cattle)

   trâu bò ― water buffaloes and Southern Yellow zebus

   nuôi bò ― to keep Southern Yellow zebus

   chăn bò ― to tend/graze Southern Yellow zebus

   thịt bò ― Southern Yellow beef

2. (zoology, by extension) any bovine from the subtribe Bovina

   bò sữa ― a dairy bovine; cow

• bê (“calf”)
• ụm bò (“moo”)
• trâu (“buffalo”)

From Proto-Vietic *bɔː (“to crawl; to drag”).

bò • (𨁏 - 𨄳, 𨆶, 蜅, 爬)

1. to creep; to crawl (move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground)

   rắn bò ― a snake crawls

   lổm ngổm như cua bò ― to swagger as a crab crawls

2. (botany) to creep (to grow across a surface rather than upwards); to climb (to grow upwards by clinging to something)

   Mướp bò lên giàn. ― The loofah climbed the frame.

3. to slowly climb

   Chiếc xe bò lên dốc. ― The car climbed up the hill.

Compare vò.

bò

1. (informal) a unit of measurement for grain volume equivalent to the capacity of a condensed milk can

   Vay vài bò gạo. ― Lend me some condensed milk cans' worth of rice.

   Synonyms: ống bơ, bơ

"bò" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)