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бау

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Bashkir

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Бау

Etymology

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From Common Kypchak *baw, from Common Turkic *bāg (rope, binder), from Proto-Turkic *b(i)ā- (to bind, fasten).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bağ, band, binder; bond); Kazakh бау (bau, cord, binder), Kyrgyz боо (boo, cord, binder), Southern Altai буу (buu, cord), Crimean Tatar bav (knot), Uzbek bogʻ (cord; bundle), Turkish bağ (connection), Yakut быа (bıa, cord, lace), etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bɑw]
  • Hyphenation: бау (one syllable)

Noun

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бау (baw)

  1. rope, cord, string
  2. (footwear) shoelace

Declension

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Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic باۋ
Cyrillic бау
Latin bau
Yañalif ʙau
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Etymology 1

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From Common Kypchak *baw, from Common Turkic *bāğ "rope, binder", from Proto-Turkic *b(i)ā- (to bind, fasten).

Noun

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бау (bau)

  1. rope, cord, string

Etymology 2

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From Persian باغ (bâğ). Doublet of бақ (baq).

Noun

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бау (bau)

  1. garden

Etymology 3

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бау (bau)

  1. bundle, bunch

Declension

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Tatar

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Noun

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бау (baw)

  1. bow (a type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords)