# boya
## Asturian
### Noun

boya f (plural boyes)
* bubble
* buoy

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *boda- (“paint, dye”). Doublet of boyaq.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

boya (definite accusative boyanı, plural boyalar)
* color
    Synonym: rəng
* dye

#### Derived terms

* boyamaq, boyalamaq (“to paint”)
* boyaçı

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bodog (“paint, dye”).

### Noun

boya (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* paint, pigment

#### Declension
### References

* “boya”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

boy (“bellboy”) +‎ -a (“his/her”, possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbojɒ]
* Hyphenation: bo‧ya

### Noun

boya
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of boy

#### Declension
## Japanese
### Romanization

boya
* Rōmaji transcription of ぼや

## Makasar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈboja]

### Verb

boya (Lontara spelling ᨅᨚᨐ, semi-transitive a'boya)
* (transitive) to look for

## Sotho
### Verb

boya
* to return
    Synonym: kgutla

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboʝa/ [ˈbo.ʝa]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈboʝa/ [ˈbo.ʝa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈboʃa/ [ˈbo.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈboʒa/ [ˈbo.ʒa]
* Rhymes: -oʝa
* Syllabification: bo‧ya

### Etymology 1

From Frankish *baukn.

#### Noun

boya f (plural boyas)
* buoy

##### Derived terms

* aboyar
* boyar

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

boya
* inflection of boyar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “boya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese boia.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

boya class V (plural maboya class VI)
* buoy
* (Mombasa area) float used to hold up a fishing net

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish boya.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈboja/ [ˈboː.jɐ]
* Rhymes: -oja
* Syllabification: bo‧ya

### Noun

boya (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜌ)
* buoy
    Synonyms: palutang, bataw

### Anagrams

* yabo, aboy, bayo

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بویا (boya, “paint, dye, color”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (boyaɣ, “dye”), from earlier *boδaɣ, from Proto-Turkic *bodog (“paint, dye”), derived from Proto-Turkic *boda- (“to paint, dye”) (see boya-). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (boduɣ, “dye”), Karakhanid [script needed] (boδoɣ, “dye”), Bashkir буяу (buyaw), Kazakh бояу (boäu), Kyrgyz боё (boyo). Compare Mongolian будаг (budag), a Turkic borrowing. See also the following words, all borrowed from Turkish: Northern Kurdish boyax and Zazaki boye.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bojɑ/ , [bo̞ʷ.jɑ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

boya (definite accusative boyayı, plural boyalar)
* color
* dye
* tint
* paint

#### Synonyms

* (color): renk

#### Related terms

* boyamak
* boyacı
* boyalı
* boyasız
* boyalık

#### Descendants

* → Northern Kurdish: boyax
* → Zazaki: boye

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* bọ́yá

### Etymology

From bí +‎ ó +‎ yá

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bó.já/

### Adverb

bóyá
* perhaps, maybe