بو

From Proto-Turkic *bu (“this”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆 (bu, “this”), Turkish bu (“this”).

بو (bū)

1. this

• مُنْدا (mundā, “here”)

بو (bū)

1. this

From Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam”). Cognate with Turkish buğu (“steam”).

بو (bū)

1. steam

بوْ (bô) (definite accusative موُنؽ, plural بوُللار)

1. Arabic spelling of bô (“this”)

From Sanskrit बहु (bahu), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰn̥ǵʰús. Cognate with Kalasha bo.

بو (bo)

1. much, very

• Elena Bashir, Maula Nigah, Rahmat Karim Baig (2022) “بو”, in A digital Khowar-English dictionary with audio‎^[1], second edition, Chicago, I.L.: South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, archived from the original on 2023-01-19.

From Arabic أَبُو (ʔabū).

بو (bū)

1. A relativizer, used to introduce a relative clause after a determinate noun

• Nöldeke, Theodor (1895) “Über einen arabischen Dialect”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[2] (in German), volume 9, pages 10–11
• Reinhardt, Carl (1894) Ein arabischer Dialekt gesprochen in ʿOmān und Zanzibar, nach praktischen Gesichtspunkten für das Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin (Lehrbücher des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen in Berlin; XIII)‎^[3] (in German), Stuttgart & Berlin: W. Spemann, pages 284–285

From Proto-Turkic *bū (“this”).

بو • (bu)

1. (demonstrative) this

• Turkish: bu

• اول (ol)
• شو (şu)

بو • (bö)

1. Alternative form of بوی (böy)

From Middle Persian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *bawd- (“to smell”), which is perhaps a semantic specialization of Proto-Iranian *bawd- (“to feel, sense”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). Akin to Old Armenian բոյր (boyr), an Iranian borrowing.

بو • (bu) (plural بوها (bu-hâ))

1. smell, scent

   آی گل ریحون چنین بویی نداره یار گلم

   ây gol-e reyhun čenin bu-yi nadâre yâr golom

   Ah, even the basil flower doesn't smell like this, my dear friend.

• بوی (buy)

• بو کردن (bu kardan)
• بوییدن (buyidan)

• → Bengali: বু (bu)
• → Urdu: بو (bū)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Seems like a "papa"-type word.”)

بو • (bow)

1. (dialectal, Kazerun) father, dad, daddy
2. (dialectal, Kazerun) grandfather

• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 14-6

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

بو (bõ)

1. mosquito

• Abd-El-Malek Lamuwal, Adam Baker (2013) “Southeastern Pashayi”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 43, Cambridge: International Phonetic Association, pages 243-246

From Classical Persian بو (bō, “smell, odor”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /buː/, /boː/

بو • (bū or bo) ?

1. smell, odor, scent
2. stink, stench

• بو دار (bū-dār)
• خوشبو (xušbū)
  • خوشبودار (xušbūdār)
• بد بو (bad-bū)
  • بد بودار (bad-būdār)

• “بو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “بو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “بو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “بو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.