ဘော

Burmese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ́/
• Romanization: MLCTS: bhau: • ALA-LC: bho • BGN/PCGN: baw: • Okell: bò

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Doesn't seem to be in STEDT or Luce 1981.”)

Noun

ဘော • (bhau:)

1. a male ancestor seven generations back

   Synonym: အဘော (a.bhau:)

Derived terms

• ဘောမ (bhau:ma.)
• သူရဲဘောကြောင် (surai:bhau:kraung)
• သူရဲဘောနည်း (surai:bhau:nany:)
• အဘော (a.bhau:)

See also

• (kinship generations) မျိုးဆက် (myui:hcak); ဘော (bhau:), ဘဲ (bhai:), ဘင် (bhang), ဘီ (bhi), ဘေး (bhe:), ဘိုး (bhui:), ဘ (bha.), သား (sa:), မြေး (mre:), မြစ် (mrac), တီ (ti), တွတ် (twat) / မျှော့ (hmyau.), ကျွတ် (kywat), ဆက် (hcak), ^{(Category: my:Family)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English ball.

Noun

ဘော • (bhau:)

1. ball

   Synonym: အလုံး (a.lum:)

2. steel ball in ball bearings

Derived terms

• ဘောကွင်း (bhau:kwang:)
• ဘောမ (bhau:ma.)
• ဘောလုံး (bhau:lum:)

Further reading

• “ဘော” in Myanmar–English Dictionary (Myanmar Language Commission 1993). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• bho (Latin script)
• 𑀪𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• भो (Devanagari script)
• ভো (Bengali script)
• භො (Sinhalese script)
• ꧤေႃ (Burmese script)
• โภ (Thai script)
• ᨽᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂຠ or ໂພ (Lao script)
• ភោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄞𑄮 (Chakma script)

Particle

ဘော

1. (vocative) Burmese script form of bho (“friend”)
2. Burmese script form of bho, which is vocative singular/plural of ဘဝန္တ် (bhavant, “sir”)