boyar

• boiar
• boiarin
• boyard, bolyard

From Russian боя́ре (bojáre), plural of боя́рин (bojárin).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɪɑː/, /ˈbəʊjɑː/, /bəʊˈjɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

boyar (plural boyars)

1. (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
   • 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin, published 1998, page 159:

     Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.

   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page 68:

     A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 514:

     some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.

   • 2016 December 12, Editorial Team, “Editorial: Trump, Putin and the risks of a reset”, in Chicago Tribune‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 December 2016:

     To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad.

• barin

• baryo-

boyar

1. amorous, full of love

• 1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)

From boya +‎ -ar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bo‧yar

boyar (first-person singular present boyo, first-person singular preterite boyé, past participle boyado)

1. (intransitive) to float

• “boyar”, 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