buho

buhò (diminutive buhô-buhò)

1. crevice, hole, opening, perforation, pit, vent

• bufo

From Late Latin būfus (“owl”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuho/

buho m (plural buhos)

1. owl
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 108r:

     […] la uertud de figura de mugier q̃ ua antella un ninno. ⁊ tiene ſolos pies un buho, ⁊ ſobre ſu cabeça eſtas figuras de letras.

     [[…] la vertud de figura de mugier que va ant ella un ninno, e tiene so los pies un buho, e sobre su cabeça estas figuras de letras.]

     […] the virtue of the figure of a woman and a child before her, and under her feet an owl, and over her head the shapes of these letters.

• Spanish: búho

buho (Cyrillic spelling бухо)

1. vocative singular of buha

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuo/ [ˈbu.o]
• Rhymes: -uo
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buho m (plural buhos)

1. superseded spelling of búho, deprecated in 1952 by the Royal Spanish Academy

• NTLLE
• Diccionario de Autoridades(1726-1739)
• RAE. NTLLET.

From Proto-Austronesian *buluq (“type of slender bamboo; Schizostachyum spp.”) with elision of /l/. Compare Ilocano bolo, Kapampangan bulu, Hanunoo bulo, Aklanon bueo, Cebuano bulo, Maranao bolo, Malay buluh, and Javanese ꦮꦸꦭꦸꦃ (wuluh).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuhoʔ/ [ˈbuː.hoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uhoʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buhò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ)

1. a type of slender bamboo

• boho, bouo, boo — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• buo, buwo — obsolete

Borrowed from Spanish búho with the silent ⟨h⟩ pronounced as /h/, from Old Spanish buho, bufo, from Late Latin būfus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuho/ [ˈbuː.ho]
• Rhymes: -uho
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buho (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ)

1. owl

   Synonym: kuwago

2. Giant scops owl (Otus gurneyi)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuhoʔ/ [ˈbuː.hoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uhoʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ho

buhò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜑᜓ) (obsolete)

1. state of being stuck or jammed

• “buho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*buluq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 142: “Caña) Boo (pp) del gada liſa y de largos cañutos, ſiruẽ de haçer eſteras ytabiqeus en ſus caſas deſtos, pican las enteras y deſpues las abren y tejenlas.”
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 91