بوی

See also: بوى, پوی, and بوے

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bod.

Noun

بوی • (boy)

1. stature, height, length, size

Related terms

• بویلو (boylu)

Descendants

• Turkish: boy
• → Armenian: բոյ (boy)
• → Bulgarian: бой (boj)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: бо̑ј

  Latin script: bȏj

Etymology 2

Noun

بوی • (boy)

1. tribe, clan

Descendants

• Turkish: boy

Etymology 3

From Proto-Oghuz, from Persian بوی (bōy, “smell”).

Noun

بوی • (boy)

1. (only constructed with اوتی (otu), تخمی (tohumu), or چیچگی (çiçeği)) fenugreek

   Synonyms: چمن (çemen), حلبت (hulbet), حلبه (hulbe)

Descendants

• Turkish: boy

Etymology 4

From Proto-Turkic *bȫg. Cognate with Azerbaijani böyə.

Alternative forms

• بو (bö), بوجك (böcek, böcük)

Noun

بوی • (böy)

1. wolf spider

Descendants

• Turkish: böcek, böcük

Further reading

• Hauenschild, Ingeborg (2003) Die Tierbezeichnungen bei Mahmud al-Kaschgari: eine Untersuchung aus sprach- und kulturhistorischer Sicht (Turcologica; 53) (in German), Otto Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden, →ISBN, pages 70–71
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, pages 135–136
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 295b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 946b–947a

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Persian

Alternative forms

• بو (bu)

Etymology

Akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	b
Dari reading?	b
Iranian reading?	b
Tajik reading?	b

Noun

Dari	بوی
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бӯй

بوی • (buy)

1. smell, scent

Related terms

• بوی کردن (buy kardan)
• بوییدن (buyidan)

Descendants

• → Chagatai: بوی (boy)
• → Kipchak: بوی (boy)
• → Proto-Oghuz: *boy
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: بوی (boy, “fenugreek”)
    • Ottoman Turkish: بوی (boy, “fenugreek”)
      • Turkish: boy (“fenugreek”)
• Hindustani
  • → Urdu: بو (bū)
  • → Hindi: बू (bū)

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 947a
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بوی”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوی”, 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^[5] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 281