gobo

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡəʊbəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈɡoʊˌboʊ/
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• rhymes with -əʊbəʊ
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɒ-/
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Uncertain; possibly from go-b(etween) (“intermediary, middleman”) + -o (suffix forming informal terms).

Borrowed from Japanese ごぼう, ゴボウ, 牛蒡 (gobō, “burdock (Arctium lappa); burdock root”), from Middle Chinese 牛蒡 (ŋɨu pɑŋ^X, “burdock”) (modern Mandarin 牛蒡 (niúbàng)), from 牛 (ŋɨu, “ox”) + 蒡 (pɑŋ^X, a word only appearing in the compound 牛蒡), possibly because oxen have been observed eating the leaves of the plant when recovering from illness.

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Italian: filtro — screen placed between a light and an illuminated actor or object in order to diffuse the glare
• Italian: filtro — device used to shield a microphone from extraneous sounds
• Basque: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Dutch: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• French: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• German: Gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Italian: gobos — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Italian: filtro — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Norwegian Bokmål: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Spanish: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light
• Swedish: gobo — template inserted over a light source to control the shape of the thrown light