| Example in Portuguese | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Creio que vou bufar biscoitos de gato. - Boa noite, Odie. | I think I'm going to blow cat-chow chunks. |
| - E sobre o bufo? | -How about the whistle blower? |
| - Ele achou que ia encontrar-se com um bufo. | Jimmy thought he was meeting a whistle-blower. |
| - Lixas tudo se o tipo for bufo. | You're blowing it. |
| A minha unidade traficava drogas, mas eu não era o bufo. | My unit was smuggling drugs, but I wasn't the whistle-blower. |
| Claramente, o Jared Stone não é um bufo. | Clearly, Jared Stone is not a whistle-blower. |
| (bufa ar) | (blows air) |
| Ele bufou a deserção do Vishnevsky com um propósito. | He blew the Vishnevsky defection, for one thing. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | نفخ | Catalan | bufar,cornar |
| Danish | blæse | Dutch | blazen, doorblazen, doorslaan, verknallen, waaien, wegblazen |
| English | blow | Esperanto | blovi, disblovi, krevigi |
| Estonian | puhuma | Faroese | fúka, gjósa |
| Finnish | niistää, puhallella, puhaltaa, puhkua, tuivertaa, tuulla | French | flamber, moucher |
| German | blasen, pusten, verbraten, wehen | Greek | πνέω, φυσώ |
| Hawaiian | makani | Hungarian | fú, fúj, fuvall |
| Icelandic | feykja | Indonesian | bertiup |
| Italian | cornare, soffiare, spirare | Japanese | 吹く, 吹奏 |
| Latvian | pūst | Lithuanian | išsišnypšti, nusišnypšti, papūsti, pūsti, šniypšti |
| Macedonian | дува, дувне | Norwegian | blåse |
| Polish | dmuchać, dmuchnąć, nachuchać, obwiać, podmuchiwać, przedmuchać, przedmuchiwać, rozsadzić, rozwalić, wiać, wydmuchiwać, wysadzić, wysądzić | Quechua | phukuy, wayray |
| Romanian | sufla | Russian | высморкать, дунуть, дуть, навевать, навеять, подуть, сморкать, трубить |
| Spanish | sonarse, soplar, soplarse, ventar, ventear, volarse | Swedish | blåsa |
| Thai | ปลิว, เป่า | Turkish | esmek, patlatmak, uçurmak, üflemek, üflenmek |
| Vietnamese | thoi, thổi, thời |