bov

From Old Norse bógr (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). Cognate with English bough (“branch”), German Bug (“animal shoulder; ship bow”), and Dutch boeg (“ship bow”). In the maritime sense, the Danish word is influenced by Dutch (like English bow).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ɒwˀ]

bov c (singular definite boven, plural indefinite bove)

1. shoulder (of an animal)
2. bow (front of a boat or ship)

Borrowed from Old Armenian բով (bov).[1][2]

bov m (nominative plural bova)

1. oven, stove

• Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870) “bov”, in Études sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla, page 187
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o bov, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 91

From Latin bōs, bovem, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷōws.

bov m (plural bovs)

1. ox

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bov (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. mother's brother, maternal uncle

From Old Swedish bōve, from Middle Low German bōve, from Proto-Germanic *bō-.

• IPA^(key): /buːv/

bov c

1. (colloquial) criminal, chiefly a thief or a robber

• IPA^(key): /bov/

bov (nominative plural bovs)

1. bowl