բով

Armenian

Etymology 1

From Old Armenian բով (bov).

Pronunciation

Noun

բով • (bov)

  1. furnace
  2. (figurative) furnace, crucible (a place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Azerbaijani böv, büvə, böyə. Doublet of պո̈ւ (, ghost) and պի (pi, venomous spider) in the dialects of Constantinople and Nor Nakhijevan, borrowed from other Turkic languages.

Alternative forms

  • բո (bo)
  • բօ̈վ (böv), պօ̈վ (pöv) dialectological notation

Noun

բով • (bov)

  1. (dialectal, Karabakh) a kind of arachnid, probably camel spider
    Synonym: խըմբըրկատու (xəmbərkatu)

Further reading

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1913) “բով”, in Hayerēn gawaṙakan baṙaran [Armenian Provincial Dictionary] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 9) (in Armenian), Tiflis: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 202b
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 183
  • Sargsyan, Armen Yu. (2013) “բօվ”, in Ġarabaġi barbaṙi baṙaran [Dictionary of Karabakh Dialect] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Edit Print, →ISBN, page 101c
  • Sargsyan, Artem et al., editors (2001), “բով”, in Hayocʻ lezvi barbaṙayin baṙaran [Dialectal Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: Hayastan, page 211a

Old Armenian

Etymology

Ačaṙyan derives from Proto-Indo-European *bʰō- or *bʰow-, from *bʰeh₁-.[1][2]

Noun

բով • (bov)

  1. furnace
  2. crucible, melting pot
  3. censer
  4. fire
  5. smelting
  6. (in the plural) mine
  7. (figurative) furnace, crucible (a place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline)

Declension

Derived terms

  • բովեմ (bovem)
  • բովհրեմ (bovhrem)

Descendants

  • Armenian: բով (bov)
  • Romani: bov (oven, stove)

References

  1. Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1940) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun [History of the Armenian Language] (in Armenian), volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 42–43
  2. Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բով”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, pages 473–474

Further reading

  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836) “բով”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), volume I, Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 506a
  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բով”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy, page 105a
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