Noun

bafoCategory:Aja (West Africa) lemmas#BAFOCategory:Aja (West Africa) nouns#BAFOCategory:Aja (West Africa) entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. corn

Etymology

OnomatopoeicCategory:Galician onomatopoeias#BAFO. From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#BAFOCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#BAFO bafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Cognate with Portuguese bafo, Ladino bafo and Spanish vaho.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbafo/ [ˈba.fʊ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#BAFO
• Rhymes: -afoCategory:Rhymes:Galician/afo#BAFOCategory:Rhymes:Galician/afo/2 syllables#BAFO
• Hyphenation: ba‧fo

Noun

bafo m (plural bafos)Category:Galician lemmas#BAFOCategory:Galician nouns#BAFOCategory:Galician countable nouns#BAFOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Galician masculine nouns#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. breath (exhalation)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana:

     Et el deytaua da boca hũa escuma que semellaua chama, et o sseu bafo semellaua que queymaua o ayro.

     He emitted from his mouth a foam that seemed a flame, and his breath appeared to burn the air

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#BAFO

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
2. bad breath
3. puff
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#BAFO

4. vapor, steam

   Synonym: vapor

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo

     knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#BAFO

5. air vent of the oven

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bafo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “bafo”, 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), “bafo”, 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), “bafo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bafo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

UncertainCategory:Istriot terms with unknown etymologies#BAFO. Doria suggests etymology maybe derived from Ancient GreekCategory:Istriot terms derived from Ancient Greek#BAFO βᾰφή (băphḗ). Cognate with Italian baffo, Venetan bafo.

Noun

bafo mCategory:Istriot lemmas#BAFOCategory:Istriot nouns#BAFOCategory:Istriot entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Istriot masculine nouns#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. whisker
2. moustache

References

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 82
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 35

Noun

bafo fCategory:Ladino lemmas#BAFOCategory:Ladino nouns#BAFOCategory:Ladino nouns in Latin script#BAFOCategory:Ladino entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Ladino feminine nouns#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. breath
2. blow (act of expelling air from the mouth)

Etymology

From PortugueseCategory:Macanese terms derived from Portuguese#BAFO bafo (“breath”), of onomatopoeicCategory:Macanese onomatopoeias#BAFO origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.fu/Category:Macanese terms with IPA pronunciation#BAFO

Noun

bafoCategory:Macanese lemmas#BAFOCategory:Macanese nouns#BAFOCategory:Macanese entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. breathing, respiration
2. air

References

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

Etymology

OnomatopoeicCategory:Portuguese onomatopoeias#BAFO. From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#BAFOCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#BAFO bafo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -afuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/afu#BAFOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/afu/2 syllables#BAFO
• Hyphenation: ba‧fo

Noun

bafo m (plural bafos)Category:Portuguese lemmas#BAFOCategory:Portuguese nouns#BAFOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#BAFOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. bad breath
2. breath
3. (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#BAFO, gay slangCategory:Portuguese gay slang#BAFO) something very good
4. (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#BAFO, slangCategory:Portuguese slang#BAFO) gossip about news

Further reading

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

Noun

bafo m (plural bafi)Category:Venetan lemmas#BAFOCategory:Venetan nouns#BAFOCategory:Venetan entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Venetan masculine nouns#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. whisker
2. (chiefly in the plural) moustache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ɸo/Category:West Makian terms with IPA pronunciation#BAFO

Verb

bafoCategory:West Makian lemmas#BAFOCategory:West Makian verbs#BAFOCategory:West Makian entries with incorrect language header#BAFOCategory:Pages with entries#BAFOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#BAFO

1. (stativeCategory:West Makian stative verbs#BAFO) to be alive
2. (intransitiveCategory:West Makian intransitive verbs#BAFO) to grow

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics
• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎, Pacific linguistics