boia

Borrowed from Old French buie.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.jə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ja/

boia f (plural boies)

1. (nautical) buoy

• boiar

• “boia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• 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, Royal Galician Academy.
• “boia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “boia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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.

• 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) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.i.a/, [ˈboiä]
• (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)

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

• bóia (pre-1990 spelling)

• Hyphenation: boi‧a

boia f (plural boias)

1. float; buoy
2. (informal) meal

• boiar

• → Swahili: boya

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]

boia f (plural boiele)

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

• boia in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)