bov

See also: BOV and բով

Danish

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): [ˈb̥ɒwˀ]

Noun

bov c (singular definite boven, plural indefinite bove)

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

Inflection

Declension of bov

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bov	boven	bove	bovene
genitive	bovs	bovens	boves	bovenes

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

Romansch

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

1. (colloquial) criminal, chiefly a thief or a robber

Declension

Declension of bov
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bov	boven	bovar	bovarna
Genitive	bovs	bovens	bovars	bovarnas

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bov/

Noun

bov (nominative plural bovs)

1. bowl

Declension

declension of bov

	singular	plural
nominative	bov	bovs
genitive	bova	bovas
dative	bove	boves
accusative	bovi	bovis
vocative 1	o bov!	o bovs!
predicative 2	bovu	bovus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only