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búa
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bua"
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse búa, from Proto-Germanic *būaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
búa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative bjó, third-person plural past indicative bjuggu, supine búið)
- (intransitive) to reside, to live
- Synonym: eiga heima
- (intransitive) to run a farm or home
- Synonym: reka bú
- to prepare [with accusative]
- Synonym: útbúa
- (impersonal) used in set phrases
- Honum býr eitthvað í brjósti.
- There is something on his mind.
- (literally, “Something lives in his chest.”)
Conjugation
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Derived terms
- búa hjá
- búa í brjósti
- búa með
- búa saman
- búa sig til
- búa sig undir
- búa sig upp
- búa til
- búa til sögu
- búa um
- búa um rúmið
- búa við
- búa yfir
- búast
- búast við
- fara að búa
- íbúð
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *būaną, whence also Old English būan, Old Frisian buwa, Old Saxon būan, Old High German būan, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (bauan).
Verb
búa
- to reside, to live
- 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 1:
- Varð framgengt, / þars Fróði bjó,
feigðarorð, / es at Fjǫlni kom. […]- The word of doom / which came upon Fjǫlnir
was fulfilled / where Fróði lived. […]
- The word of doom / which came upon Fjǫlnir
- 9th c., Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, Ynglingatal, verse 1:
- to prepare
- to dress, decorate
Conjugation
Descendants
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Tày
Pronunciation
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [ɓuə˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [ɓuə˦]
Etymology 1
Noun
búa
- spring onion
- phjắc búa hom ― fragrant spring onion
- tube; pipe
- búa mạy pjeo ― bamboo tube
- (of trees) node
- búa mạy ― bamboo node
- gun's barrel
- búa slủng ― gun barrel
Derived terms
- rặng búa
- then búa
Etymology 2
From Chinese 符 (fú). Doublet of bùa.
Noun
búa (符)
References
- Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
- Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
- Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 斧 (“hatchet”, SV: phủ), borrowed from a form when the vowel already shifted, although likely still reasonably early.
Pronunciation
Noun
(classifier cái, chiếc, cây) búa • (斧, 鈽)
- hammer
- búa tạ ― a sledgehammer
- búa liềm ― hammer and sickle
- Vui cái búa á! Cái đó mà vui gì!
- Fun my ass! That was anything but fun!
Usage notes
Derived terms
- cá mập đầu búa
- đao to búa lớn
Descendants
→ Tày: bủa
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