بویا

Azerbaijani

Noun

بوْیا

1. Arabic spelling of boya

Ottoman Turkish

بویالر

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (boyaɣ, “dye”), from earlier [script needed] (*boδaɣ), from Proto-Turkic *bodog (“paint, dye”), derived from Proto-Turkic *boda- (“to paint, dye”). Cognate with Azerbaijani boya, Bashkir буяу (buyaw), Kazakh бояу (boäu), Kyrgyz боёк (boyok), Turkmen boýag, Uyghur بوياق (boyaq) and Uzbek boʻyoq.

Noun

بویا • (boya)

1. paint, a liquid or paste that adds color to an object or surface to which it is applied

   Synonym: رنك (renk)

2. dye, a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied

   Synonym: صبغ (sabg)

3. color, hue, a particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class

   Synonyms: رنك (renk), لون (levn)

Derived terms

• آشو بویاسی (aşı boyası, “ruddle”)
• بویا آتمق (boya atmak, “to paint or dye”)
• بویا اوتی (boya otu, “madder”)
• بویا اورمق (boya urmak, “to paint or dye”)
• بویا طوتمق (boya tutmak, “to take a dye (of a material)”)
• بویا كوكی (boya kökü, “madder root”)
• بویاجی (boyacı, “dyer”)
• بویاخانه (boyahane, “dyery”)
• بویاسز (boyasız, “unprovided with paint, dye, etc.”)
• بویالامق (boyalamak, “to paint, dye”)
• بویالو (boyalı, “painted, dyed”)
• صاری بویا (sarı boya, “yellowberry”)
• صاچ بویاسی (saç boyası, “hairdye”)
• صولو بویا (sulu boya, “watercolor”)
• قره بویا (kara boya, “copperas”)
• یاغلو بویا (yağlı boya, “oil paint”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: boya
  • → Northern Kurdish: boyax
  • → Zazaki: boye
• → Albanian: bojë
• → Greek: μπογιά (bogiá)
• → Bulgarian: боя (boja)
• → Laz: ბოჲა (boya)
• → Macedonian: боја (boja)
• → Romanian: boia
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: боја

  Latin script: boja

• → Slovene: boja

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 661
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بویا”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 136a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بویا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 295
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tinctura”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1674
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بویا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 947-948
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boya”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بویا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 412