Noun: bouba
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bouba |
| Plural f | boubas |
Sample Sentences
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1886, in O Galiciano, 91, p. 3 ("What you need", I reply, "is a good rod down your back; yo have always been a dissolute guy, and for having one more day of fun you are taking advantage of this hoax about the end of the world …")
Nouns inflected like bouba
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1846. Perhaps from Latin balbus. Compare Spanish bobo. See: Latin Nouns '
balbus', Spanish Nouns '
bobo'.
Translations