bouba

== Galician == === Etymology 1 === Attested since circa 1846. Perhaps from Latin balbus. Compare Spanish bobo. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈbowba/ [ˈbow.β̞ɐ] Rhymes: -owba ==== Noun ==== bouba f (plural boubas) lie, fib hoax 1886, in O Galiciano, 91, p. 3: === Etymology 2 === Attested since circa 1750. From Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”). ==== Alternative forms ==== buba ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): [bowβɐ] ==== Noun ==== bouba f (plural boubas) blister a sickness of cattle === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “bouba”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bouba”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bouba”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bouba”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -owbɐ, -obɐ Hyphenation: bou‧ba === Noun === bouba f (plural boubas) yaws Synonyms: (Brazil) piã, framboesia ==== Related terms ==== === References === “bouba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “bouba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “bouba”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “bouba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN