bú

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuː]

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bú

1. moo (sound of a cow)

• “bú”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bú”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuː]

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• Rhymes: -buː

From a Turkic language, compare Turkish bun (“boredom, worry”).

bú (usually uncountable, plural búk)

1. (literary) sorrow, grief

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bú	búk
accusative	bút	búkat
dative	búnak	búknak
instrumental	búval	búkkal
causal-final	búért	búkért
translative	búvá	búkká
terminative	búig	búkig
essive-formal	búként	búkként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	búban	búkban
superessive	bún	búkon
adessive	búnál	búknál
illative	búba	búkba
sublative	búra	búkra
allative	búhoz	búkhoz
elative	búból	búkból
delative	búról	búkról
ablative	bútól	búktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	búé	búké
non-attributive possessive - plural	búéi	búkéi

Possessive forms of bú
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	búm	búim
2nd person sing.	búd	búid
3rd person sing.	búja	búi
1st person plural	búnk	búink
2nd person plural	bútok	búitok
3rd person plural	bújuk	búik

An onomatopoeia.

bú

1. moo (the characteristic sound made by a cow)

   Synonym: mú

   • 1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert)‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 October 2018:

     Bú, bú, bú, / boci szomorú, / de hogy feszít / tyúkjai közt a kukurikú.

     Moo, moo, moo / the little calf is blue, / but how proud is / among his hens the cock-a-doodle-doo.

• (sorrow, grief): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (moo): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (archaic, folksy: synonym of bújik (“to hide [oneself]”)): bú in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bú in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Old Norse bú (“farming, a farm, farm stock”).

• IPA^(key): /puː/
• Rhymes: -uː

bú n (genitive singular bús, nominative plural bú)

1. housekeeping
2. farm
3. estate

• (farm): býli

• búa

• IPA^(key): /bˠuː/

From Old Irish buga.

bú m (genitive singular bú, nominative plural búnna)

1. hyacinth

• bugha, butha

• bú fíniúna (“grape-hyacinth”)
• bú muc (“(wild) hyacinth, bluebell”)

Onomatopoeic.

bú!

1. boo!

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 buga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• bu — nonstandard

bú (bu², Zhuyin ㄅㄨˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼／继
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轎／轿
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸／朴

• IPA^(key): /buː/

bú

1. vocative/accusative plural of bó

From Proto-Germanic *būą.

bú n

1. (Old West Norse) dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home

• búa
• bo (Old East Norse)

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): [buː]

bú

1. moo (sound of a cow)

• “bú”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ɓu˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ɓu˦]

bú

1. goby

   Synonym: pja bú

bú

1. fish trap

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[2][3] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

From Proto-Vietic *buːʔ ~ *puːʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ʔbuuʔ (“to suck at the breast”). Cognate with Khmer បៅ (baw), Pnar bu, Khmu [Cuang] buʔ, Shwe Palaung ဘူ, Gata' buˀ. Related to vú (“breast”), which derived from a prefixed form.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓu˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓʊw˦˥]

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bú • (𪜛)

1. to suck (at a breast) to consume milk

• bú mớm