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Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈbuː]
  • (file)

Interjection[edit]

  1. moo (sound of a cow)

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From a Turkic language, compare Turkish bun (boredom, worry).

Noun[edit]

(usually uncountable, plural búk)

  1. (literary) sorrow, grief
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative búk
accusative bút búkat
dative búnak búknak
instrumental búval búkkal
causal-final búért búkért
translative búvá búkká
terminative búig búkig
essive-formal búként búkként
essive-modal
inessive búban búkban
superessive bún búkon
adessive búnál búknál
illative búba búkba
sublative búra búkra
allative búhoz búkhoz
elative búból búkból
delative búról búkról
ablative bútól búktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
búé búké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
búéi búkéi
Possessive forms of
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. búm búim
2nd person sing. búd búid
3rd person sing. búja búi
1st person plural búnk búink
2nd person plural bútok búitok
3rd person plural bújuk búik
Derived terms[edit]
  • bús (with several more derivations)
Compound words

Etymology 2[edit]

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection[edit]

  1. moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)
    Synonym:
    • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)[1]:
      , , , / boci szomorú, / de hogy feszít / tyúkjai közt a kukurikú.
      Moo, moo, moo / the little calf is blue, / but how proud is / among his hens the cock-a-doodle-doo.

Further reading[edit]

  • (sorrow, grief): in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (moo): in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (archaic, folksy: synonym of bújik (to hide [oneself])): in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Icelandic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse (farming, a farm, farm stock).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

 n (genitive singular bús, nominative plural )

  1. housekeeping
  2. farm
  3. estate

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish buga.

Noun[edit]

 m (genitive singular , nominative plural búnna)

  1. hyacinth
Declension[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection[edit]

bú!

  1. boo!

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bhú mbú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

Mandarin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • bunonstandard

Romanization[edit]

(bu2, Zhuyin ㄅㄨˊ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轿
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

  1. vocative/accusative plural of

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization

pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
mbú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *būą.

Noun[edit]

 n

  1. (Old West Norse) dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home

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Vietnamese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Vietic *buːʔ ~ *puːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔbuuʔ (to suck at the breast). Cognate with Khmer បៅ (baw), Pnar bu, Khmu [Cuang] buʔ, Shwe Palaung ဘူ, Gata' buˀ. Related to (breast), which derived from a prefixed form.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

(𪜛)

  1. to suck (at a breast) to consume milk

Derived terms[edit]