боҙоу
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Bashkir
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *buŕ- (“to damage, destroy”).[1]
Cognate with Chuvash пӑс (păs, “break, destroy”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (buz-, “to break, destroy”);[2] Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu), Uzbek buzmoq (“to break”).
Verb
[edit]боҙоу • (boźow) (transitive)
- to break, destroy
- (building) to demolish, pull down
- (meachanism) break, to put sth. out of order
- (figurative) to destroy, ruin
- to violate
- (oath, promise) to break, violate
- to distort, pervert, corrupt
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕ- / *boŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 130