بوش

Khalaj

Adjective

بوْش (bôş)

1. Arabic spelling of bôş (“empty”)

Kohistani Shina

Noun

بوْش (bowš)

1. temple, sanctuary

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *boĺ (“free, empty”).

Adjective

بوش • (boş)

1. empty, unoccupied, free, vacant

   Antonym: طولو

2. useless
3. (of an animal) loose, untethered
4. (of a woman) unmarried

Related terms

• بوشاتمق (boşatmak)
• بوشالتمق (boşaltmak)
• بوشالمق (boşalmak)
• بوشانمش (boşanmış)

Descendants

• Gagauz: boş
• Turkish: boş
• → Albanian: bosh
• → Arabic: بوش (bōš) (in the dialects of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia)
• → Armenian: բոշ (boš)
• → English: bosh
• → Macedonian: бош (boš)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бо̏ш

  Latin script: bȍš

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوش”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 400

Persian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ba.wiʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.wɪʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.wɪʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bä.wɪʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bä.wiʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæ.veʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bä.viʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bawiš
Dari reading?	bawiš
Iranian reading?	baveš
Tajik reading?	baviš

Noun

بوش • (baveš)

1. godly ordeal, lot of fate, divine decree

Etymology 2

بودن (budan) +‎ ـش (-eš).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bu.wiʃ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.wɪʃ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bʊ.wɪʃ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bʊ.wɪʃ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.wiʃ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bo.veʃ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bu.viʃ]

Readings
Classical reading?	buwiš
Dari reading?	buwiš
Iranian reading?	boveš
Tajik reading?	buviš

Noun

بوش • (boveš)

1. being, dasein, existence

References

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوش”, 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^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 277b
• Wolff, Fritz (1935) Glossar zu Firdosis Schahname‎^[3] (in German), Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, page 157b