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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping ofEnglishBodo withy as a placeholder.

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boy

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forBodo (Central Africa).

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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Aboy (sense 1) wearing a backpack

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Proto-West Germanic*bōjō
Old English*bōia
Middle Englishboye
Englishboy

    FromMiddle Englishboy /boye(“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), fromOld English*bōia(“boy”), fromProto-West Germanic*bōjō, fromProto-Germanic*bōjô(“younger brother, young male relation”), fromProto-Germanic*bō-(“brother, close male relation”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰā-,*bʰāt-(“father, elder brother, brother”).

    Cognate withScotsboy(“boy”),West Frisianboai(“boy”),Dutchboi(“boy”),Low GermanBoi(“boy”), and probably to theOld English proper nameBōia. Also related toWest Flemishboe(“brother”),Norwegian dialectalboa(“brother”),Dutchboef(“rogue, knave”),BavarianBua(“young boy, lad”),GermanBube("boy; knave; jack"; > Englishbub),Icelandicbófi(“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”). See alsobully.

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    Noun

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    boy (countable anduncountable,pluralboysor(eye dialect)boyz)

    2. Amalechild.[from 15th c.]
      Kieran plays football with otherboys in his school.
      • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar),Myles Coverdale, transl.,Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible),[Cologne or Marburg]:[Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?],→OCLC, Zachary [Zechariah] viij:[5],folio xcix, recto, column 2:
        The ſtretes of the cite alſo ſhalbe full of yongeboyes and damſelles, playnge vpon the ſtretes.
      • 1711 March 18 (date written; Gregorian calendar),Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] Letter XVII.”, inThomas Sheridan,John Nichols, editors,The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume XIV, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published1801,→OCLC,page371:
        I find I was mistaken in the sex, it is aboy.
      • 1812,Lord Byron, “Canto II”, inChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […];William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; byThomas Davison, […],→OCLC, stanza XXIII,page72:
        Ah! happy years! once more who would not be aboy?
      • 1876, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, “A Tale of Love”, inThe Kiddle-a-Wink‎[1], page168:
        "He is not quite a baby, Alfred," said Ellen, "though he is only a big stupidboy. We have made him miserable enough. Let us leave him alone."
      • 2014 January 31, Kelly Wallace, “Pink, princess-y and sexy too soon”, inCNN‎[2]:
        Girls were offered baby dolls, princesses and sexy fashion figures; theboys section had superheroes, building blocks, science kits and dinosaurs.
      • 2018 March 28, Melissa Gray, “Boy in viral hug photo missing after family’s car plunges off cliff”, inCNN‎[3]:
        Theboy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.
    3. Ayoung man.
      Kate is dating aboy named Jim.
    4. (diminutive, especially with a possessive) Ason ofanyage.
      • 1805,Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, inThe Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] forLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], andA[rchibald] Constable and Co., […],→OCLC, stanza II,page94:
        Low as that tide has ebbed with me, / It still reflects to memory’s eye / The hour, my brave, my onlyboy, / Fell by the side of great Dundee.
      • 2015,Gordon Smith, “Five-O” (38:10 from the start), inBetter Call Saul, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Michael Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks):
        I tried. I tried. But he wouldn't listen. Myboy was stubborn. Myboy was strong. And he was gonna get himself killed. Now I told him, I told him I did it too. That I was like Hoffman, getting by, and that's what you heard that night: me talking him down, him kicking and screaming until the fight went out of him. He put me up on a pedestal. And I had to show him that I was down in the gutter with the rest of them. Broke myboy. I broke myboy.
    5. (endearing, diminutive) Amalehumanyounger than thespeaker.[from 17th c.]
    6. (informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) Amalehuman of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
      • 1889,Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, inUnder the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published1899, page10:
        "My dear girl, what hashe done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "myboy."
      • 1989 December 10, Tatiana Schreiber, Liz Galst, Emma Stonebridge, “Drawing The Line: Lesbian Sex And Art: What Do You Like, How Do You Decide?”, inGay Community News, volume17, number22, page 9:
        It opened up a whole range [of feelings]. Some of them we were prepared for ― like for some women to feel some of the images were anti-feminist[…] One woman wrote, "I can see theboys have taught you well." "Macho B.S.," someone else wrote.
    7. (obsolete) Amale oflowstation, (especially as pejorative) aworthlessmale, awretch; amean anddishonestmale, aknave.[14th–17th c.]
    8. (now rare and usually offensive outside some Commonwealth nations) Amaleservant,slave,assistant, oremployee,[from 14th c.]particularly:
      1. Ayoungersuchworker.
        • 1721, Penelope Aubin,The Life of Madam de Beaumount,ii, 36:
          I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and aBoy, whom I had brought from France.
      2. (historical or offensive) Anon-whitemaleservantregardless ofage,[from 17th c.]particularly as a form of address.
        • 1625, W. Hawkins in Samuel Purchas,Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Vol. I, iii, vii, 211:
          MyBoy Stephen Grauener.
        • 1834, Edward Markham,New Zealand or Recollections of It, section 72:
          They picked out two of the strongest of theBoys (as they call the Men) about the place.
        • 1876, Ebenezer Thorne,The Queen of the Colonies, or, Queensland as I Knew It‎[4], section 58:
          The blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, calledboys.
        • 1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page233:
          From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chineseboys.
        • 1907 May 13,Evening Post, N.Y, section 6:
          [In Shanghai,] The register clerk assigns you to a room, and instead of ‘Front!’ he shouts ‘Boy!’
        • 1959,Anthony Burgess,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page521:
          He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"
        • 1960 February 5,Northern Territory News,5/5:
          Aborigine Wally... described himself as ‘number oneboy’ at the station.
      3. (obsolete) Amalecamp follower.
    9. (now offensive)Anynon-whitemale,regardless ofage.[from 19th c.]
      • 1812, Anne Plumptre translating Hinrich Lichtenstein,Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, Vol. I, i, viii, 119:
        AHottentot... expects to be called by his name if addressed by any one who knows it; and by those to whom it is not known he expects to be called Hottentot... orboy.
      • 1888, Louis Diston Powles,Land of Pink Pearl, or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, section 66:
        Everydarky, however old, is aboy.
      • 1973 September 8,Black Panther,7/2:
        [In Alabama,] Guards still use the term ‘boy’ to refer to Black prisoners.
      • 1979,Bert Newton,Mohammed Ali,The Logie Awards‎[5]:
        BN: [repeating a catchphrase] I like theboy.
        MA: [to hostile audience] Hold it, hold it, hold it. Easy. Did you say ‘Roy’ or ‘boy’?
        BN: ‘I like theboy’. There's nothing wrong with saying that... Hang on, hang on, hang on... I'll change religion, I'll do anything for ya, I don't bloody care... What's wrong with saying that? ‘I like theboy’?
        MA:Boy...
        BN: I mean, I like the man. I'm sorry, Muhammad.
    10. (informal, especially with a possessive) A malefriend.
    11. (BDSM) A malesubmissive.
    12. Amale non-humananimal,especially, in affectionate address, amalepet, especially adog.[from 15th c.]
      C'mere,boy! Goodboy! Who's a goodboy?
      Are you getting aboy cat or a girl cat?
    13. (historical, military) Aformerlowrank ofvariousarmedservices; aholder ofthisrank.
      • 1841 May 6,Times, London,5/4:
        Wounded... 1Boy, 1st class, severely.
      • 1963 April 30,Times, London,16/2:
        He joined the Navy as aboy second class in 1898.
    14. (US, slang, uncountable)Heroin.[from 20th c.]
      • 2021, Tim Weber,Heroin: the Ripple Effect:
        […] drove by a corner, saw what I thought—no, what I knew—were dealers and asked if they knew where I could get someboy.
    15. (somewhat childish) Amale (tree, gene, etc).
      • 1950,Pageant:
        Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
      • 1970 [earlier1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt,Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult (→ISBN):
        Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have oneboy and one girl gene, and 25 will have twoboy genes.
    16. (endearing, colloquial) Any tangibleobject close to one's person;often used in emphatic forms such asbad boy.
      Thisboy can really kick!

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    male child
    young man
    son of any age
    male human younger than the speaker
    lower-class or disreputable man
    male servant
    historical: non-white male servant
    non-white male
    male of any age, used as a friendly diminutive
    male friend
    affectionate term of address for male dog
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    boy

    1. Exclamation ofsurprise,pleasure orlonging.
      Boy, that was close!
      Boy, that tastes good!
      Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!
      • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
        Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable -boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
      • 2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, inThe New York Times‎[6], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:
        Taylor Swift has entered her engagement era. And, as befitting an artist whose image has always evolved to reflect the shifts in her music — not to mention one who has never been afraid to share her most Hallmark-seeped romantic fantasies —boy, does she have a new look to go with her new status.
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    surprise or pleasure

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    boy (third-person singular simple presentboys,present participleboying,simple past and past participleboyed)

    1. (transitive) Toact as a boy(in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).

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    Azerbaijani

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    Other scripts
    Cyrillicбој
    Arabicبوْی

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    FromProto-Turkic*bod(“body, stature; self; kin, tribe, etc”).

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    boy (definite accusativeboyu,pluralboylar)

    1. height,stature
      Boyum balacadır. ―I'm short. (literally, “My stature is little.”)
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    Declension ofboy
    singularplural
    nominativeboyboylar
    definite accusativeboyuboyları
    dativeboyaboylara
    locativeboydaboylarda
    ablativeboydanboylardan
    definite genitiveboyunboyların
    Possessive forms ofboy
    nominative
    singularplural
    mənim(“my”)boyumboylarım
    sənin(“your”)boyunboyların
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyuboyları
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzboylarımız
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzboylarınız
    onların(“their”)boyu orboylarıboyları
    accusative
    singularplural
    mənim(“my”)boyumuboylarımı
    sənin(“your”)boyunuboylarını
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyunuboylarını
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzuboylarımızı
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzuboylarınızı
    onların(“their”)boyunu orboylarınıboylarını
    dative
    singularplural
    mənim(“my”)boyumaboylarıma
    sənin(“your”)boyunaboylarına
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyunaboylarına
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzaboylarımıza
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzaboylarınıza
    onların(“their”)boyuna orboylarınaboylarına
    locative
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    mənim(“my”)boyumdaboylarımda
    sənin(“your”)boyundaboylarında
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyundaboylarında
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzdaboylarımızda
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzdaboylarınızda
    onların(“their”)boyunda orboylarındaboylarında
    ablative
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    mənim(“my”)boyumdanboylarımdan
    sənin(“your”)boyundanboylarından
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyundanboylarından
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzdanboylarımızdan
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzdanboylarınızdan
    onların(“their”)boyundan orboylarındanboylarından
    genitive
    singularplural
    mənim(“my”)boyumunboylarımın
    sənin(“your”)boyununboylarının
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyununboylarının
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzunboylarımızın
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzunboylarınızın
    onların(“their”)boyunun orboylarınınboylarının
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    boy

    1. alternative form ofbıy

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    • “boy” inObastan.com.

    Cebuano

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    FromEnglishboy.

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    boy

    1. houseboy,errand boy
      Synonyms:houseboy,muchacho,mutsatso

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    boy

    1. alternative form ofboi

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    • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

    Chinese

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    FromEnglishboy.

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    boy

    1. (Hong Kong Cantonese)The name of theLatin-script letterB/b.
    2. (Hong Kong Cantonese)office boy

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    Dutch

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    Borrowed fromEnglishboy. Cognate withMiddle Dutchboye(“young man, boy”), whenceDutchboi(“boy”).

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    boy m (pluralboys,diminutiveboytje nor(informal)boykie n)

    1. (historical, now offensive) a maledomestic servant, especially one with a darker skin in a colony
      Synonym:djongos(Indonesia)
    2. (informal)boy,young man
      Ik vind die Roy echt een rareboy. ―I think this Roy is really a strangeyoung man.

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    French

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishboy.

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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. (now historical, offensive)boy (non-white male servant)
      • 1930,André Malraux,La Voie royale:
        Claude allait l'ouvrir mais le ton sur lequel le délégué appelait sonboy lui fit lever la tête : l'auto attendait, bleue sous l'ampoule de la porte; leboy, qui s'était écarté – en voyant arriver le délégué sans doute – se rapprochait, hésitant.
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    Hungarian

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    Borrowed fromEnglishboy.

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    boy (pluralboyok)

    1. A young maleservant, low-position assistant.
      1. bellboy (in a hotel)
        Synonym:londiner
      2. office boy,errand boy,deliveryman
        Synonyms:kifutófiú,kézbesítő
    2. (dated) A maleballetdancer.

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    Inflection (stem in-o-, back harmony)
    singularplural
    nominativeboyboyok
    accusativeboytboyokat
    dativeboynakboyoknak
    instrumentalboyjalboyokkal
    causal-finalboyértboyokért
    translativeboyjáboyokká
    terminativeboyigboyokig
    essive-formalboykéntboyokként
    essive-modal——
    inessiveboybanboyokban
    superessiveboyonboyokon
    adessiveboynálboyoknál
    illativeboybaboyokba
    sublativeboyraboyokra
    allativeboyhozboyokhoz
    elativeboybólboyokból
    delativeboyrólboyokról
    ablativeboytólboyoktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular    		boyéboyoké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural    		boyéiboyokéi
    Possessive forms ofboy
    possessorsingle possessionmultiple possessions
    1st person sing.boyomboyaim
    2nd person sing.boyodboyaid
    3rd person sing.boyaboyai
    1st person pluralboyunkboyaink
    2nd person pluralboyotokboyaitok
    3rd person pluralboyukboyaik

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    • boy in Nóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).

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    Pseudo-anglicism. In the sense "bellboy", a clipping ofEnglishbellboy; in other meanings, a transferred sense ofEnglishboy.

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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. a maleballetdancer
    2. bellboy (in a hotel)

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    1. ^boy inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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    • boy in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

    Ladino

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    FromTurkishboy(“stature, size”).

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    boy m

    1. size
    2. age

    Middle English

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    boy

    1. alternative form ofboye

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    PolishWikipedia has an article on:
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    boy

    Etymology

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived fromboy.

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    boy m pers

    1. bellboy,office boy
      Synonym:garson

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    Declension ofboy
    singularplural
    nominativeboyboye
    genitiveboyaboyów
    dativeboyowiboyom
    accusativeboyaboyów
    instrumentalboyemboyami
    locativeboyuboyach
    vocativeboyuboye

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    • boy inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • boy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    Portuguese

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    Etymology 1

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishboy. In the senseoffice boy, anellipsis ofoffice boy, fromEnglishoffice boy.

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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. office boy
      Synonym:office boy
    2. (Brazil, slang)boyfriend(male partner)
      Synonyms:namorado,(gay slang)bofe
      Estou com meuboy. ―I am together with myboyfriend.
    3. (Brazil, slang, sometimes derogatory) a young,upper-class man
      Synonyms:(Brazil)mauricinho,(Brazil)playboy
    4. (Brazil, slang) youngman
      Me declarei proboy. ―I declared [my love] for theguy.
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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. obsolete spelling ofboi

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    Salar

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    Etymology

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    FromProto-Turkic*bȫg.

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    • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua, Qinghai)IPA(key): [poiʲ],[pojɨ]
    • (Xunhua, Hualong, Qinghai, Yining, Xinjiang)IPA(key): /poj/

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    boy

    1. spider

    References

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    • Potanin, G.N. (1893), “boy”, inТангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian)
    • Kakuk, S. (1962), “boy”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, inActa Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎[7], volume14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó,→ISBN, page186
    • Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “boy”, inStroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages451-452
    • 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “boy”, in撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎[8], Beijing:民族出版社: 琴書店,→OCLC, page121
    • Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “boy”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor,撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing,→ISBN, page50
    • 马伟 (Ma Wei);朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), “boy”, in濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page265

    Spanish

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    Etymology

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    Pseudo-anglicism, derived fromboy.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈboi/[ˈboi̯]
    • Rhymes:-oi
    • Syllabification:boy

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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. amalestripper

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    Sranan Tongo

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    • IPA(key): /boi̯/,[bʊ̞i̯],[bɔ̝i̯]

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    boy

    1. alternative form ofboi(official spelling)

    Tagalog

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    Borrowed fromEnglishboy.

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    boy (Baybayin spellingᜊᜓᜌ᜔)(colloquial)

    1. boy(young male)
    2. errand boy;houseboy;boy doing amenialjob(usually young)
      Synonyms:mutsatso,utusan

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    • “boy”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018.

    Turkish

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    Etymology 1

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    FromProto-Turkic*bod. See dialectalbodur(“stout, short”).

    Noun

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    boy (definite accusativeboyu,pluralboylar)

    1. stature
      Boyun ne kadar? ―How tall are you? (lit. "How much is yourstature?")
    2. size
      küçükboy ―small size
    3. edge,side (of some linear feature)
      boydan boya ―all over (literally, “from edge to edge”)
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

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    Noun

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    boy (definite accusativeboyu,pluralboylar)

    1. tribe,clan
      eski Türkboyları tarihi ―history of ancient Turkish clans
    Declension
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    Declension ofboy
    singularplural
    nominativeboyboylar
    definite accusativeboyuboyları
    dativeboyaboylara
    locativeboydaboylarda
    ablativeboydanboylardan
    genitiveboyunboyların

    Etymology 3

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    FromOttoman Turkishبوی(boy).

    Noun

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    boy

    1. (only constructed withotu ortohumu)fenugreek
      Synonym:çemen

    References

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    • Clauson, Gerard (1972), “”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,page384b
    • Eren, Hasan (1999), “boy”, inTürk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[9] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi,page59a
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