boia

Borrowed from Old French buie.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔ.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɔ.ja]

boia f (plural boies)

1. (nautical) buoy

• boiar

• “boia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

boia

1. inflection of boiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /βoia/

boia

1. arrowleaf elephant ear; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

boia

1. partitive plural of boa

Borrowed from Old French buie, from Frankish *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“sign”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔja̝/

boia f (plural boias)

1. buoy, floater

• aboiar (“to float”)

• “boia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “boia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “boia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese boiar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bóia.

boia

1. to float (in the water)

From Latin boia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ja/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: bò‧ia

boia m (invariable)

1. executioner
   • 1995, Niccolò Ammaniti, Rane e girini:

     Non erano soltanto motociclisti di periferia, ma boia insensibili assetati del suo sangue.

     They weren't just bikers from the outskirts, but ruthless executioners thirsty for his blood.

• boiata

• boia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• abio-, baio

• boiá (Barlavento)

From Portuguese boiar.

boia

1. (Sotavento) to float

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

From Ancient Greek βοείη (boeíē, “ox hide”), from βοῦς (boûs).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbo.i.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.i.a]

boia f (genitive boiae); first declension

1. fetter, collar for the neck

First-declension noun.

• Italian: boia

• "boia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• Rhymes: -ɔjɐ
• Hyphenation: boi‧a

Borrowed from Old French buie, boye, boue, from Frankish *baukn.

• bóia (pre-1990 spelling)

boia f (plural boias)

1. float (buoyant device used to support something in water)
2. (nautical) buoy, marker

   Synonym: baliza

3. ballcock (floating sphere that controls the level of liquid in a tank)
4. (informal) meal

• → Swahili: boya

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boia

1. inflection of boiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بویا (boya).

• IPA^(key): /boˈja/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: bo‧ia

boia f (plural boiele)

1. (Moldavia (region)) paint
2. paprika (powder used as a spice)

• “boia”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025