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ბუ

ბუ

Georgian

ბუ

Noun

ბუ (bu) (plural ბუები)

  1. owl

Inflection


Old Georgian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *b(ɣ)u-. Ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.[1][2] Compare also Old Armenian բու (bu), Latin bubo, Arabic بومة and Persian بوف.

Noun

ბუ (bu)

  1. owl

Descendants

References

  1. Klimov, Georgij A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 23
  2. Online database of Kartvelian reconstructions, by Sergei Starostin