bois

bois

1. plural of boi

• BIOS, Ibos, SIBO, bios, obis, sibo

Inherited from Middle French boys, from Old French bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/ ~ /bwɑ/

bois m (countable and uncountable, invariable)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
2. (countable) wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
3. (countable) wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
4. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
5. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind

   Coordinate term: cuivre

6. (art) wooden engraving, woodcut
7. (golf) wood (type of club)
8. (nautical, dated) hull

• buisson

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Homophone: boit

bois

1. inflection of boire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

• “bois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bios

bois

1. plural of boi

bois

1. inflection of bos:
   1. dative singular
   2. dual all cases

From buis.

bois

1. tax

• bosc

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboi̯s/

bois oblique singular, m (oblique plural bois, nominative singular bois, nominative plural bois)

1. woodland; woods

• buison
• boschage

• Bourguignon: boo
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
• Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
  • French: bois
    • Haitian Creole: bwa
• Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
• Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
• Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
• Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
• ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
  • Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
    • French: bouquet
      • → English: bouquet
  • Gallo: bóqèt
  • Norman: boûquet
  • Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
  • Walloon: boukèt

• Hyphenation: bois

bois

1. plural of boi

From buis.

boís

1. tax

• vois

From Latin vōbīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbois/, [ˈboː.i.zĭ]

bois (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonyms: bos, bosateros

• nois (“we”)

bois

1. dative singular of bas

• Also used as nominative.