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See also:Boyandbõy

English

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Painting of aboy (c. 1811;sense 1)
Two Arabboys (c. 1910;sense 1)

Etymology

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

    2. Ayoungmalehuman.[from 15th c.]
      Kieran plays football with otherboys in his school.
      1. (particularly) Amalechild oradolescent, asdistinguished from aninfant oradult.
        • 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."
    3. (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.
    4. (endearing, diminutive) Amalehumanyounger than thespeaker.[from 17th c.]
    5. (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.
    6. (obsolete) Amale oflowstation, (especially as pejorative) aworthlessmale, awretch; amean anddishonestmale, aknave.[14th–17th c.]
    7. (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[2], 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.
    8. (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[3]:
        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.
    9. (informal, especially with a possessive) A malefriend.
    10. (BDSM) A malesubmissive.
    11. 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?
    12. (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.
    13. (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.
    14. (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.

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    Translations

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    young male
    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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    Interjection

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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.

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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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    • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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    Azerbaijani

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    Other scripts
    Cyrillicбој
    Abjadبوْی

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    Etymology 1

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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
    singularplural
    mənim(“my”)boyumdaboylarımda
    sənin(“your”)boyundaboylarında
    onun(“his/her/its”)boyundaboylarında
    bizim(“our”)boyumuzdaboylarımızda
    sizin(“your”)boyunuzdaboylarınızda
    onların(“their”)boyunda orboylarındaboylarında
    ablative
    singularplural
    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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    Interjection

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    boy

    1. Alternative form ofbıy

    Further reading

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    • “boy” inObastan.com.

    Cebuano

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    Etymology

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    FromEnglishboy.

    Noun

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    boy

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

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    boy

    1. Alternative form ofboi

    References

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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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    Etymology

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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.
        (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

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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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    Further reading

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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).

    Italian

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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)

    Further reading

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

    Ladino

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    Etymology

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    FromTurkishboy(“stature, size”).

    Noun

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    boy m

    1. size
    2. age

    Middle English

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    Noun

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    boy (pluralboys)

    1. Alternative spelling ofboye

    Polish

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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

    Further reading

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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.

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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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)
    • The templateTemplate:R:slr:Kakuk does not use the parameter(s):
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      Please seeModule:checkparams for help with this warning.      Kakuk, S. (1962) “boy”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, inActa Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎[4], volume14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó,→ISBN, pages173-196
    • 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]‎[5], 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

    Noun

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    boy m (pluralboys)

    1. amalestripper

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    Sranan Tongo

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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /boj/,[ˈbʊ̞j],[ˈbɔ̝j]

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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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    Further reading

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

    Turkish

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

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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
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    boy (definite accusativeboyu,pluralboylar)

    1. tribe,clan
      eski Türkboyları tarihi ―history of ancient Turkish clans
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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,page384b
    • Eren, Hasan (1999) “boy”, inTürk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language]‎[6] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page59a
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