Inherited from Sanskrit भेक (bheka). Cognate to Sinhalese බෙක (beka)
ބޮއް • (bok̊) (plural ބޮއްތައް (bottak̊))
Hassan Ahmed Maniku (2000) “ބޮއް”, in A Concise Etymological Vocabulary of Dhivehi Language, Colombo: The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, page 37