buğu.
water vapor, steam
Meaning & usage
water vapor, steam
Liquid condensation on a cold surface.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوغو (buġu, “steam, any vapor or mist”) (alternatively بوغ (buġ)), from Proto-Turkic *būg (“steam, fog”). Cognates with Azerbaijani buğ, Bashkir быу (bıw), Karakhanid بُو (bū), Kazakh бу (buw), Kyrgyz буу (buu), Lezgi бугъ (buġ), Southern Altai буу (buu), Tabasaran бугъ (buġ), Tatar бу (bu), Tajik буғ (buġ), Turkmen bug, Uyghur بۇغ (bugh), Uzbek bugʻ.
alternative form of buğra
A wild cow.
A gazelle.
A male deer.
Where this word comes from
From Ottoman Turkish بوغور (buġur, “a male camel; a stallion camel; a dromedary”),) from Proto-Turkic *bugra (“deer (male); camel stallion”), from Proto-Mongolic *bugu(r). Cognates with Azerbaijani buğur, Crimean Tatar бора (bora), Karakhanid بُغْرا (buɣra, boɣra) (whence Bughra Khan), Karachay-Balkar буу (buu), Karakalpak buwra, Kazakh бұғы (buğı), Kyrgyz бугу (bugu), Nogai бора (bora), Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰍𐰺𐰀 (b¹wg¹r¹a), Salar buğu, Turkmen bugra, Tuvan буур (buur, “elk”), Uyghur بۇغرا (bughra), Uzbek bugʻu.
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