بوت

See also: پوت, توت, تؤت, ثوب, توب, تؤب, توپ, and بوب

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology 1

بوت

From French botte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt/, [ˈbo̞ːt]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːt/ (based on the English pronunciation of boot)

Noun

بوت • (bōt) m (plural بوتات (bōtāt))

1. boot

Etymology 2

بوت

From English boat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt/, [ˈbo̞ːt]

Noun

بوت • (bōt) m (plural بوتات (bōtāt))

1. boat

See also

• يخت (yaḵt) (can by considered a synonym of boat)

Khalaj

Noun

بوُت (bûut) (definite accusative بوُتوُ, plural بوُتلار)

1. Arabic spelling of bûut (“thigh”)

Declension

Declension of بوت

	singular	plural
nominative	بوت	بوتلار
genitive	بوتؽݧ	بوتلارؽݧ
dative	بوتقا	بوتلارقا
definite accusative	بوتؽ	بوتلارؽ
locative	بوتچا	بوتلارچا
ablative	بوتدا	بوتلاردا
instrumental	بوتلا	بوتلارلا
equative	بوتوارا	بوتلاروارا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• بود (bud)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh; leg”); cognate with Azerbaijani bud, Kazakh бұт (būt), Kyrgyz бут (but), Tatar бот (bot), Turkmen būt, Tuvan бут (but), Uyghur پۇت (put) and Uzbek but.

Noun

بوت • (but)

1. thigh, the part of the leg between the hip and the knee

   Synonyms: اویلق (uyluk), باجاق (bacak)

2. gigot, leg of some animals kept or hunted for their meat

Derived terms

• بوتلق (butluk, “thighplate”)

Descendants

• Gagauz: but
• Turkish: but, bud (dialectal)
• → Armenian: բուդ (bud)
• → Greek: μπούτι (boúti)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “but”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 710
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 280
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Coxa”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 296
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 911
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “but”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 391

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from English boot (in Dari) or French botte (in Iran).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [buːt]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buːt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [buːt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [buːt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [buʈ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buːt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [but̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	būt
Dari reading?	būt
Iranian reading?	but
Tajik reading?	but

Noun

Dari	بوت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ботинка, мӯза

بوت • (but)

1. boot
2. (Dari) shoe

Alternative forms

• بوٹ (bōṭ), بوټ (bōṭ) — Hazaragi