боҙоу

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Bashkir

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *buŕ- (to damage, destroy).[1]

Cognate with Chuvash пӑс (păs, break, destroy), Old Uyghur [script needed] (buz-, to break, destroy);[2] Kazakh бұзу (būzu), Kyrgyz бузуу (buzuu), Uzbek buzmoq (to break).

Verb

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боҙоу (boźow) (transitive)

  1. to break, destroy
  2. (building) to demolish, pull down
  3. (meachanism) break, to put sth. out of order
  4. (figurative) to destroy, ruin
  5. to violate
  6. (oath, promise) to break, violate
  7. to distort, pervert, corrupt

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*buŕ- / *boŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 130