բու

From Middle Armenian բու (bu), from Old Armenian բու (bu).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [bu]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [pʰu]

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բու • (bu)

1. owl

Used loosely for any member of the family Strigidae.

• բայղուշ (bayġuš)

From Old Armenian բու (bu).

բու • (bu), genitive singular բուոյ (buoy)

1. owl

• Armenian: բու (bu)

• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բու”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

• բբու (bbu)

Of imitative origin. Compare Persian بوف (buf), Arabic بوم (būm), Ancient Greek βύας (búas), Latin būbō, Georgian ბუ (bu).

բու • (bu)

1. owl
   • 5th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Baroyaxōs [Physiologus] Earliest recension (TR).8.1:[1]

     Զբուոյ ասեն, թէ զգիշեր քաջ սիրէ քան զտիւ։

     Zbuoy asen, tʻē zgišer kʻaǰ sirē kʻan ztiw.

     • Translation by Gohar Muradyan

       The owl is said to love more the night than the day.

In the Physiologus, translates Ancient Greek νυκτικόραξ (nuktikórax).

• Middle Armenian: բու (bu)
  • Armenian: բու (bu)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “բու”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “բու”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բու”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press