boya

boya f (plural boyes)

1. bubble
2. buoy

From Proto-Turkic *boda- (“paint, dye”). Doublet of boyaq.

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boya (definite accusative boyanı, plural boyalar)

1. color

   Synonym: rəng

2. dye

• boyamaq, boyalamaq (“to paint”)
• boyaçı

From Proto-Turkic *bodog (“paint, dye”).

boya (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. paint, pigment

• “boya”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

boy (“bellboy”) +‎ -a (“his/her”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbojɒ]
• Hyphenation: bo‧ya

boya

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of boy

boya

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぼや

• IPA^(key): [ˈboja]

boya (Lontara spelling ᨅᨚᨐ, semi-transitive a'boya)

1. (transitive) to look for

boya

1. to return

   Synonym: kgutla

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Syllabification: bo‧ya

From Frankish *baukn.

boya f (plural boyas)

1. buoy

boya

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

• “boya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Portuguese boia.

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boya class V (plural maboya class VI)

1. buoy
2. (Mombasa area) float used to hold up a fishing net

Borrowed from Spanish boya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈboja/ [ˈboː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -oja
• Syllabification: bo‧ya

boya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌ)

1. buoy

   Synonyms: palutang, bataw

• yabo, aboy, bayo

From Ottoman Turkish بویا (boya, “paint, dye, color”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (boyaɣ, “dye”), from earlier *boδaɣ, from Proto-Turkic *bodog (“paint, dye”), derived from Proto-Turkic *boda- (“to paint, dye”) (see boya-). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (boduɣ, “dye”), Karakhanid [script needed] (boδoɣ, “dye”), Bashkir буяу (buyaw), Kazakh бояу (boäu), Kyrgyz боё (boyo). Compare Mongolian будаг (budag), a Turkic borrowing. See also the following words, all borrowed from Turkish: Northern Kurdish boyax and Zazaki boye.

• IPA^(key): /bojɑ/, [bo̞ʷ.jɑ]

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boya (definite accusative boyayı, plural boyalar)

1. color
2. dye
3. tint
4. paint

• (color): renk

• boyamak
• boyacı
• boyalı
• boyasız
• boyalık

• → Northern Kurdish: boyax
• → Zazaki: boye

• bọ́yá

From bí +‎ ó +‎ yá

• IPA^(key): /bó.já/

bóyá

1. perhaps, maybe