буу

See also: Appendix:Variations of "buu"

Buryat

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠤᠤ (buu, “musket”), from Mandarin 礟 (pào, “mangonel; cannon”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊː/, [bʊː]
  • Hyphenation: буу

Noun

буу • (buu) (??? please provide spelling!)

  1. gun

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic بۋۋ
Cyrillic буу
Latin buu
Yañalif ʙuu

Noun

буу • (buu)

  1. tying up
  2. suffocation
  3. interception

Verb

буу • (buu)

  1. to tie up
  2. to suffocate
  3. to intercept

Conjugation

Kyrgyz

Noun

буу • (buu)

  1. steam

Declension

Mongolian

Etymology 1

Mongolian
(Mongolia)(China)
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
ᠫᠤᠤ
(puu)
Cyrillic
буу
(buu)

Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠪᠤᠤ (buu, “musket”), from Mandarin 礮/炮 (pào, “mangonel; cannon”).

Pronunciation

Noun

буу • (buu) (definite plural буунууд); (hidden-n declension)

  1. firearm
    Hypernym: галт зэвсэг (galt zevseg)
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms
  • буудах (buudax, “to shoot”)
  • бууч (buuč)
  • гар буу (gar buu)

Etymology 2

MongolianCyrillic
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
буу
(buu)

From Mandarin 寶/宝 (bǎo, “a kind of gambling device with direction markings on them”).

Pronunciation

Noun

буу • (buu); (hidden-n declension)

  1. a kind of dice game
    Synonym: онх (onx)
Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 3

MongolianCyrillic
ᠪᠤᠤ
(buu)
буу
(buu)

Compare Manchu ᠪᠣᠣ (boo) in ᠪᠣᠣ
ᠨᡳᠮᠠᡥᠠ
(boo nimaha).

Pronunciation

Adjective

буу • (buu)

  1. Only used in буу загас (buu zagas, “whale”)

Southern Altai

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam”).

Noun

буу • (buu)

  1. steam

Etymology 2

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

Noun

буу • (buu)

  1. cord, rope
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