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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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, since 2012
• 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/
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: bò‧ia

boia m (invariable)

1. executioner
2. hangman (word game)
3. villain, scoundrel
   • 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/, [ˈboiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.i.a/, [ˈbɔːiä]

boia f (genitive boiae); first declension

1. fetter, collar for the neck

First-declension noun.

• 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; buoy
2. (informal) meal

• boiar

• → 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)