بوم

Meaning

owl, owls

Concepts

owls

owl

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pome

Synonyms

بُوم

Translations

Eule

🦉

hibou

🦉

gufi

coruja

🦉

lechuza

🦉

Mochuelo

Búho

Carabo

Siguapa

Siju

baykuş

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Etymology

Likely of native onomatopoeic origin; Semitic parallels are Classical Syriac ܒܐܘܐ (bawwā, “owl; hoopoe”) and Akkadian 𒁍𒌝𒄷 (/⁠pûm, bûm; pa'û, ba'û⁠/, “type of bird”) attested in the Old Babylonian Era, and more recently the owl name بُوهَة (būha), although resembling Middle Persian 𐭡𐭥𐭯 (bwp /⁠būf⁠/), also only parallelly formed to Latin būbō, Ancient Greek βύας (búas), and Old Armenian բու (bu).