buho

See also: búho

Hiligaynon

Noun

buhò (diminutive buhô-buhò)

1. crevice, hole, opening, perforation, pit, vent

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• bufo

Etymology

From Late Latin būfus (“owl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuo/

Noun

buho m (plural buhos)

1. owl
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 108r:

     […] la uertud de figura de mugier q́ ua antella un ninno. ⁊ tiene ſolos pies un buho, ⁊ ſobre ſu cabeça eſtas figuras de letras.

     […] the virtue of the figure of a woman and a child before her, and under her feet an owl, and over her head the shapes of these letters.

Descendants

• Spanish: búho

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

buho

1. vocative singular of buha

Spanish

Noun

buho m (plural buhos)

1. Superseded spelling of búho.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• boho, bouo, boo — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• buo, buwo — obsolete

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *buluq (“type of slender bamboo; Schizostachyum spp.”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bolo, Kapampangan bulu, Hanunoo bulo, Aklanon bueo, Cebuano bulo, Maranao bolo, Malay buluh, and Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸꦃ (wuluh).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuhoʔ/ [ˈbuː.hoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uhoʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

Noun

buhò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ)

1. a type of slender bamboo

Derived terms

• anak-sa-buho
• buhong-tsina
• putok-sa-buho

 

See also

• bukawe
• kawayan
• tayuwanak

 

Further reading

• “buho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI