boa

See also: Boa and bō-á

English

Boa constrictor

Etymology

From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈboʊ.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊə

Noun

boa (plural boas or boae)

1. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico, and the chevalier boa of Peru.
2. (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers.

Translations

snake

• Albanian: boa (sq) m
• Basque: boa (eu)
• Catalan: boa (ca) f
• Chamicuro: akumawa, kasesepi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟒蛇 (zh) (mǎngshé), 王蛇 (zh) (wángshé)

• Czech: hroznýš (cs) m
• Danish: boa (da) c
• Finnish: boa (fi), boakäärme (fi)
• French: boa (fr) m
• Galician: boa f
• German: Boa (de) f
• Italian: boa (it) m
• Japanese: ボア (ja) (boa)

• Korean: 보아 (boa), 왕뱀 (wangbaem)
• Kyrgyz: боа (ky) (boa), удав (ky) (udav)
• Macedonian: бо́а f (bóa), зми́ски цар m (zmíski car), у́дав m (údav)
• Manx: aarnieu traastagh m
• Polish: boa (pl) m
• Portuguese: jiboia (pt) f, boa (pt) f
• Romanian: boa (ro)
• Russian: бо́а (ru) m (bóa), уда́в (ru) m (udáv)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: удав m

  Roman: udav (sh) m

• Spanish: boa (es) f
• Ukrainian: уда́в m (udáv)

scarf

• Albanian: boa (sq)
• Basque: lepoko
• Catalan: boà m
• Danish: boa (da) c
• Finnish: höyhenhuivi

• French: boa (fr) m
• Galician: boa f
• Italian: boa (it) m
• Russian: горже́тка (ru) f (goržétka), бо́а (ru) m (bóa)
• Tuvan: богаа (bogaa)

See also

• boa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• ABO, AOB, Abo, BAO, Bao, OAB, Oba., a.o.b., abo, bao, oba

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boes)

1. boa (snake)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “boa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa c (singular definite boaen, plural indefinite boaer)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (item of clothing)

Declension

Declension of boa

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	boa	boaen	boaer	boaerne
genitive	boas	boaens	boaers	boaernes

Synonyms

• boaslange

Derived terms

• boaslange
• fjerboa
• kongeboa

References

• “boa” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

boa m (plural boa's, diminutive boaatje n)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

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Adjective

boa (accusative singular boan, plural boaj, accusative plural boajn)

1. Related by marriage (rarely used; bo- is usually a prefix).

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːɑ/, [ˈbo̞ːɑ]
• Hyphenation: bo‧a

Noun

boa

1. boa (snake)

Declension

Inflection of boa (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		boa	boat
genitive		boan	boien
partitive		boaa	boia
illative		boaan	boiin
		singular	plural
nominative		boa	boat
accusative	nom.	boa	boat
	gen.	boan
genitive		boan	boien boainrare
partitive		boaa	boia
inessive		boassa	boissa
elative		boasta	boista
illative		boaan	boiin
adessive		boalla	boilla
ablative		boalta	boilta
allative		boalle	boille
essive		boana	boina
translative		boaksi	boiksi
instructive		—	boin
abessive		boatta	boitta
comitative		—	boineen

Compounds

• boakäärme
• kuningasboa
• smaragdipuuboa

Anagrams

• abo

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.a/

• audio

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Noun

boa m (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Further reading

• “boa” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

boa

1. feminine singular of bo

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Italian

Noun

boa m (invariable)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Noun

boa f (plural boe)

1. buoy

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Katembri

Noun

boa

1. moon

References

• Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 88-89

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Latin

Noun

boa f (genitive boae); first declension

1. A large snake native to Roman Italy.
2. A disease, the measles or smallpox.

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	boa	boae
Genitive	boae	boārum
Dative	boae	boīs
Accusative	boam	boās
Ablative	boā	boīs
Vocative	boa	boae

Verb

boā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of boō

References

• boa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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Lindu

Noun

boa

1. lie; falsehood

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.a/

• Audio

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Etymology 1

From Latin boa.

Noun

boa m anim (indeclinable)

1. boa (snake)

Etymology 2

From French boa, from Latin boa.

Noun

boa n (indeclinable)

1. boa (feather boa)

Further reading

• boa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.ɐ/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese bõa, from Latin bona, feminine of bonus (“good”).

Adjective

boa

1. Feminine singular of adjective bom.

Derived terms

• numa boa

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. an interesting story, joke or news

Interjection

boa!

1. good one!, well done!, all right! (expresses approval, applause or admiration)

Etymology 2

From New Latin Boa, from Latin boa (“large Italian snake species”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (any snake of the Boa genus)

Synonyms

• jiboia

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboa/

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf made from feathers)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Noun

boa c

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Declension

Declension of boa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	boa	boan	boor	boorna
Genitive	boas	boans	boors	boornas

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From French pourboire (“tip”, literally “fordrink”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓwaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓwaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓwaː˧˧]

Verb

boa

1. to leave a tip; to give gratuity

   tiền boa

   a tip