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From French bossu.

bosi

  1. hunchbacked

From Malay besi, from Proto-Malayic *bəsi, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bəsi.

bosi

  1. (physics, chemistry, metallurgy) iron (element)

From Proto-West Germanic *bausī

bōsi

  1. evil

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

  • “bōsi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *bausī

bōsi

  1. evil
  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔɕi/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɕi
  • Syllabification: bo‧si

bosi

  1. virile nominative/vocative plural of bosy

From English buss,[1] of uncertain origin. Compare southern German Bussi which may or may not be related.

bosi

  1. kiss

bosi

  1. to kiss
  1. ^ Echteld, Johannes J. M. (1962) The English Words in Sranan (Negro-English of Surinam)‎[1], USA: J.B. Wolters Groningen, page 63

Borrowed from English boss.

bosi (ma class, plural mabosi)

  1. boss

From Malay besi, from Proto-Malayic *bəsi, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *bəsi.

bosi (Batak spelling ᯅᯬᯘᯪ)

  1. (physics, chemistry, metallurgy) iron (element)

bosi

  1. accusative singular of bos

Postulated by Voorhoeve to have derived from earlier *obosi, from *ḋobosi, in which case cognate with Ternate hobo (“swollen”).

bosi

  1. (stative) to be swollen
Conjugation of bosi (stative verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tibosi mibosi abosi
2nd person nibosi fibosi
3rd person inanimate ibosi dibosi
animate mabosi
imperative —, bosi —, bosi
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics