# boz
## Azerbaijani
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *boŕ.

#### Adjective

boz (comparative daha boz, superlative ən boz, intensive bomboz)
* grey

#### See also

Colors in Azerbaijani · rənglər (layout · text) :
| ağ | boz | qara |
| qırmızı, al; tünd qırmızı | narıncı; qonur, qəhvəyi | sarı; tünd sarı |
| açıq yaşıl | yaşıl | salat; tünd yaşıl |
| mavi; firuzəyi | açıq göy | göy |
| bənövşəyi; indiqo | çəhrayı; açıq çəhrayı | çəhrayı |

### Etymology 2

Likely same as above; compare Azerbaijani qır (“grey”) in qırqovul (“pheasant”).

#### Noun

boz (definite accusative bozu, plural bozlar)
* female pheasant

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “boz” in Obastan.com.

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish voz.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /bos̻/ [bos̻]
* IPA: (most dialects) /bos̻/ [bos̻]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /bos̺/ [bos̺]
* Rhymes: -os̻
* Rhymes: -os̻
* Rhymes: -os̺
* Hyphenation: boz

### Noun

boz inan
* voice

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “boz”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “boz”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *bos, from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm, fist”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosto-, *gʷosdʰo- (“branch”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboːs/

### Noun

boz f (plural bozioù, dual divoz)
* (anatomy) hollow of the hand

### Mutation

Breton consonant mutation :
| | unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard |
| singular | boz | voz | unchanged | poz |
| plural | bozioù | vozioù | unchanged | pozioù |

## Karakalpak
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *boŕ.

### Adjective

boz
* gray, grey

### References

* N. A. Baskakov, editor (1958), “боз”, in Karakalpaksko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Karakalpak-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: Akademija Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR, →ISBN

## Ladino
### Alternative forms

* bos

### Etymology

From Old Spanish (compare Spanish voz), from Latin vox, vocis, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs.

### Noun

boz f (Latin spelling, plural bozes)
* voice

## Old Norse
### Noun

boz m (definite bozins)
* genitive singular indefinite of botn

## Romanian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bъzъ.

### Noun

boz m (plural boji)
* dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)

#### Declension
## Tat
### Etymology

Compare Tat boz.

### Adjective

boz
* gray

## Tatar
### Noun

boz
* ice

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boz/

### Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish بوز (boz), from Proto-Turkic *boŕ, cognate with Uzbek bo‘z.

#### Adjective

boz
* grizzle
* dun
* gray
* (of land) uncultivated

##### Usage notes

* The distinction between gray and brown in Turkish is rather recent. The word boz covers both colors, but has a connotation of being the color of bare soil and is usually thought of as a somewhat indetermined, possibly uneven, in-between color. The word gri (loaned from French word gris) covers only gray, and the word kahverengi (lit. “coffee color”, a neologism) covers only brown.

##### Derived terms

* boz kurt
* bozkurt
* boz ayı

##### See also

Colors in Turkish · renkler (layout · text) :
| beyaz, ak | gri, boz | siyah, kara |
| kırmızı, kızıl; al | turuncu; kahverengi, konur, boz | sarı; bej |
| limon çürüğü | yeşil | nane yeşili |
| camgöbeği; turkuaz | gök, mavi | lacivert |
| eflatun; mor | pembe; mor | yavruağzı |

#### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*boŕ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

boz
* second-person singular imperative of bozmak