different between bosal vs bosa

English

Etymology

From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??sæl/

Noun

bosal (plural bosals)

1. A type of noseband used on a horse.
2. (uncommon) Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony).
   • 2009, Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L Denault, Soundings in Atlantic History, page 108:

     At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it."

References

Anagrams

• Albos, Boals, Sabol, Sobal, albos, bolas, bolsa

Spanish

Noun

bosal m (plural bosales)

1. Alternative form of bozal (“noseband, bosal”)

English

Alternative forms

• boza

Etymology

From Turkish boza, from Persian ????? (buze).

Noun

bosa (countable and uncountable, plural bosas)

1. a fermented drink made from wheat or millet

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ASBO, Abos, Asbo, BAOs, Baos, SOAB, Sabo, abos, asbo, baos, baso-, boas, obas, sabo, soba

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bos?/, [?bo?s??]
• Rhymes: -os?
• Syllabification: bo?sa

Noun

bosa

1. (Helsinki slang, usually in the plural) female breast

Synonyms

• hinkki
• dösä

Anagrams

• soba

Irish

Noun

bosa f pl

1. nominative/dative plural of bos (“palm (of the hand)”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "bosa" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bosa” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bosa” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bosa f (definite singular bosa, indefinite plural boser or bosor, definite plural bosene or bosone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by bose
2. definite singular of bose

Verb

bosa (present tense bosar, past tense bosa, past participle bosa, passive infinitive bosast, present participle bosande, imperative bos)

1. Alternative spelling of bose

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.sa/

Adjective

bosa

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of bosy

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bozal.

Noun

bosa

1. muzzle

References

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)?^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 4

Spanish

Verb

bosa

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of bosar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of bosar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of bosar.