Perhaps related to Ancient Greek βούκινο (boúkino) or Latin būcina, and Classical Syriac ܒܘܩܝܢܐ (būqīnā). Compare English bugle, an ox or bovid horn.

• IPA^(key): /buːq/

بُوق • (būq) m (plural أَبْوَاق (ʔabwāq) or بُوقَات (būqāt))

1. (music) trumpet, conch
   • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, لَيَالِيَّ بَعْدَ الظَّاعِنِينَ شُكُولُ:

     إِذَا كَانَ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ سَيْفًا لِدَوْلَةٍ // فَفِي النَّاسِ بُوقَاتٌ لَهَا وَطُبُولُ

     ʔiḏā kāna baʕḍu n-nāsi sayfan lidawlatin // fafī n-nāsi būqātun lahā waṭubūlu

     If some men are swords to a nation // Yet others are trumpets to it, and drums

2. (figuratively) presenting falsities deliberately as true, lie; by comparison to embellishments and pomp, making a lot of useless noise
3. (figuratively) one who does not conceal secrets, announces to all

• Maltese: buq (“hollow reed”)
• → Basque: alboka
• → Georgian: ბუკი (buḳi)
• → Middle Armenian: պուկ (puk)
  • Armenian: բուկ (buk)
• → Ottoman Turkish: بوق (buk)
• → Persian: بوق (buq)
• → Spanish: albogue

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “بوق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 276.
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “بق”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 233.

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish پوخ (poḫ), from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).

بوق • (bok) (definite accusative بوقی (boku), plural بوقلر (boklar))

1. (vulgar) shit, poo, crap, dump, the solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels through defecation

   Synonyms: پیسلك (pislik), مردارلق (murdarlık), (literary) براز (beraz)

2. scoria, slag, dross, the by-product that remains after the smelting and recycling of metal from an ore

• Turkish: bok

Borrowed from Arabic بُوق (būq, “trumpet”).

بوق • (buk) (definite accusative بوغی (buğu), plural بوقات (bukat))

1. trumpet, conch, a musical instrument historically used as signaling devices in battle or hunting

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Borrowed from Arabic بُوق (būq).

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بوق • (buq)

1. vehicle horn; klaxon

   بوق کشتی ― buq-e kašti ― ship horn

2. (archaic, original sense) trumpet; conch
   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[10]:

     هر شب هزار مرد پاسبان این قصر باشند پانصد سوار و پانصد پیاده که از نماز شام بوق و دهل و کاسه می‌زنند و گردش می‌گردند تا روز.

     har šab hazār mard pāsbān-i īn qasr bāšand pānsad sawār u pānsad pīyāda ki az namāz-i šām būq u duhul u kāsa mē-zanand u gird-aš mē-girdand tā rōz.

     Every night, a thousand men stand guard in this castle, five hundred mounted and five hundred on foot. From the evening prayers on, they blow trumpets and beat drums and cymbals, and go around [the castle] until daybreak.

From Arabic بُوق (būq).

بوق • (būʔ) m (plural أبواق (ʔabwāʔ))

1. trumpet