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English

Etymology

From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?.?/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

boa (plural boas or boae or (obsolete) boæ)

1. Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
2. (plural "boas") A type of scarf typically made from feathers.

Translations

See also

• boa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Boa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• A/B/O, ABO, AOB, Abo, BAO, Bao, OAB, OBA, Oba., a.o.b., abo, bao, oba

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boes)

1. boa (snake)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boa” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “boa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa c (singular definite boaen, plural indefinite boaer)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (item of clothing)

Declension

Synonyms

• boaslange

Derived terms

• boaslange
• fjerboa
• kongeboa

References

• “boa” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boa, from Latin boa. The use for scarf derived from French boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo?.a?/
• Hyphenation: boa
• Rhymes: -o?a?

Noun

boa m (plural boa's, diminutive boaatje n)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: boa

Esperanto

Etymology

From bo- +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boa/
• Hyphenation: bo?a
• Rhymes: -oa

Adjective

boa (accusative singular boan, plural boaj, accusative plural boajn)

1. Related by marriage (rarely used; bo- is usually a prefix).

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.?/, [?bo?.?]
• IPA^(key): /?bo??/, [?bo???]
• Rhymes: -o.?
• Syllabification: bo?a

Noun

boa

1. boa (snake)

Declension

Compounds

• boakäärme
• kuningasboa
• smaragdipuuboa

Anagrams

• abo

French

Etymology

From Latin boa (“large snake”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?.a/

Noun

boa m (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Further reading

• “boa” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin boa (“large snake”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

boa

1. feminine singular of bo

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch boa, from Middle Dutch boa, from Latin boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?boa?]
• Hyphenation: boa

Noun

boa (first-person possessive boaku, second-person possessive boamu, third-person possessive boanya)

1. boa, snake of the genus Boa
2. fur or plumed scarf, boa

Further reading

• “boa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin boa

Noun

boa m (invariable)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Noun

boa f (plural boe)

1. buoy

Katembri

Noun

boa

1. moon

References

• ?estmír Loukotka, ?Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 88-89

Latin

Etymology

First mentioned by Pliny, of unknown origin. Folk etymology connected it to Ancient Greek ???? (boûs, “ox”).

Noun

boa f (genitive boae); first declension

1. A large snake native to Roman Italy.
2. A disease, the measles or smallpox.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Verb

bo?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of bo?

References

• boa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• boa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lindu

Noun

boa

1. lie; falsehood

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

boa m (definite singular boaen, indefinite plural boaer, definite plural boaene)

1. boa

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boa m (definite singular boaen, indefinite plural boaer or boaar, definite plural boaene or boaane)

1. boa

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.a/

Etymology 1

From Latin boa.

Noun

boa m anim (indeclinable)

1. boa (snake)

Etymology 2

From French boa, from Latin boa.

Noun

boa n (indeclinable)

1. feather boa

Further reading

• boa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.?/

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese bõa, from Latin bona, feminine of bonus (“good”).

Adjective

boa

1. feminine singular of bom

Derived terms

• boa noite
• boa tarde
• numa boa
• embora (from "em boa hora")
• boa gente / gente boa
• boa vida / vida boa
• de boa
• boas

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. an interesting story, joke or news

Interjection

boa!

1. good one!, well done!, all right! (expresses approval, applause or admiration)

Etymology 2

From New Latin Boa, from Latin boa (“large Italian snake species”).

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (any snake of the Boa genus)

   Synonym: jiboia

Further reading

• “boa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French boa

Noun

boa m (uncountable)

1. boa constrictor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin boa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boa/, [?bo.a]

Noun

boa f (plural boas)

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf made from feathers)

Further reading

• “boa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin boa

Noun

boa c

1. boa (snake)
2. boa (scarf)

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

From French pourboire (“tip”, literally “fordrink”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??wa???]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??wa???]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??wa???]

Verb

boa

1. to leave a tip; to give gratuity

English

Etymology 1

From Boids, an artificial life program developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986; derived from bird and -oid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -??d
• Homophones: Boyd, buoyed (one pronunciation)

Noun

boid (plural boids)

1. A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bo?.?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??.?d/

Noun

boid (plural boids)

1. Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.

Related terms

• boa

Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (NYC) IPA^(key): /b??d/

Noun

boid (plural boids)

1. Nonstandard spelling of bird representing the New York City pronunciation

Anagrams

• Bodi

Irish

Alternative forms

• buid (superseded)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??d?/

Noun

boid m

1. inflection of bod:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

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