бау

See also: баю and Appendix:Variations of "bau"

Bashkir

Бау

Etymology

From Common Kypchak *baw, from Common Turkic *bāg (“rope, binder”), from Proto-Turkic *b(i)ā- (“to bind, fasten”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bağ, “band, binder; bond”); Kazakh бау (bau, “cord, binder”), Kyrgyz боо (boo, “cord, binder”), Southern Altai буу (buu, “cord”), Crimean Tatar bav (“knot”), Uzbek bogʻ (“cord; bundle”), Turkish bağ (“connection”), Yakut быа (bıa, “cord, lace”), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɑw]
  • Hyphenation: бау (one syllable)

Noun

бау • (baw)

  1. rope, cord, string
  2. (footwear) shoelace

Declension

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic باۋ
Cyrillic бау
Latin bau
Yañalif ʙau

Etymology 1

From Common Kypchak *baw, from Common Turkic *bāğ "rope, binder", from Proto-Turkic *b(i)ā- (“to bind, fasten”).

Noun

бау • (bau)

  1. rope, cord, string

Etymology 2

From Persian باغ (bâğ). Doublet of бақ (baq).

Noun

бау • (bau)

  1. garden

Etymology 3

бау • (bau)

  1. bundle, bunch

Declension

Tatar

Noun

бау • (baw)

  1. bow (a type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords)
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