бугай

From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *buka, compare Uzbek buqa. Cognates include Ukrainian буга́й (buháj), Belarusian буга́й (buháj).

• IPA^(key): [bʊˈɡaj]

буга́й • (bugáj) m anim (genitive бугая́ or буга́я, nominative plural бугаи́ or буга́и, genitive plural бугаёв or буга́ев)

1. (dialectal) uncastrated bull
2. (low colloquial, derogatory) bull (a large, strong man)

• бугаи́на (bugaína)

From a Turkic language, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *buka, compare Uzbek buqa. Cognates include Russian буга́й (bugáj), Belarusian буга́й (buháj).

• IPA^(key): [bʊˈɦai̯]

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буга́й • (buháj) m animal (genitive бугая́, nominative plural бугаї́, genitive plural бугаї́в)

1. bull (uncastrated male of cattle)
2. bittern (nocturnal marsh wader of the heron family)

• → Polish: buhaj, bugaj
• → Romanian: buhai (“bull; friction drum”)
• → Yiddish: בוהײַ (buhay)

буга́й • (buháj) m pers (genitive бугая́, nominative plural бугаї́, genitive plural бугаї́в)

1. (derogatory, figurative) large, strong man
   • 1958, Mark Kropyvnytsky, Тво́ри (Tvóry)‎, volume 2, page 354:

     До́брим лю́дям спочи́вок, а йому́, чо́ртовому бугає́ві, спі́ви.

     Dóbrym ljúdjam spočývok, a jomú, čórtovomu buhajévi, spívy.

     Good people get rest, but he, the damned “bull”, gets songs.

• Kotliarevsky, Ivan (1842) “бугай”, in Словарь Малороссійскихъ словъ, содержащихся въ Энеидѣ [Dictionary of Ukrainian words contained in the Eneida]‎ (in Russian), Kharkiv: University Printing House, page 4