bói

See Lingala boi.

bói class 14

1. honey

   Synonym: mafúta ma nzói

• nzói

Borrowed from English boy. Semantically unrelated to Portuguese boy.

bói

1. waiter

   Chomâ bói trazê café co lête

   Ask the waiter to bring coffee with milk

• Also used in restaurants as an interjection to attract the attention of a waiter.

• fóquei

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#boi

bói m (plural bóis)

1. alternative spelling of boy

• “bói”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bói”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Perhaps from Proto-Mon-Khmer *pul ~ *puul ~ *puəl and cognate with Tho [Cuối Chăm] pɒːl³, Koho pôl and Khmer បូល (boul).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔj˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔj˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɔj˦˥]

bói • (𧴤, 貝)

1. to tell fortunes, to divine, to take an augury