# boia
## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French buie.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔ.jə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbɔ.ja]

#### Noun

boia f (plural boies)
* (nautical) buoy

##### Derived terms

* boiar

##### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

boia
* inflection of boiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Chibcha
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βoia/

### Noun

boia
* arrowleaf elephant ear; Xanthosoma sagittifolium

## Finnish
### Noun

boia
* partitive plural of boa

## Galician
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French buie, from Frankish *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“sign”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔja̝/

### Noun

boia f (plural boias)
* buoy, floater

#### Derived terms

* aboiar (“to float”)

#### Further reading

* “boia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* 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

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese boiar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bóia.

### Verb

boia
* to float (in the water)

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin boia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔ.ja/
* Rhymes: -ɔja
* Hyphenation: bò‧ia

### Noun

boia m (invariable)
* executioner
** 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.

#### Derived terms

* boiata

### References

* ↑ boia in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* boia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* abio-, baio

## Kabuverdianu
### Alternative forms

* boiá (Barlavento)

### Etymology

From Portuguese boiar.

### Verb

boia
* (Sotavento) to float

### References

* Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
* Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek βοείη (boeíē, “ox hide”), from βοῦς (boûs).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbo.i.a/, [ˈboiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbo.i.a/, [ˈbɔːiä]

### Noun

boia f (genitive boiae); first declension
* fetter, collar for the neck

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* ↑ Ayto, Word Origins

### Further reading

* "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)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔj.ɐ/ [ˈbɔɪ̯.ɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔj.ɐ/ [ˈbɔɪ̯.ɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔj.a/ [ˈbɔɪ̯.a]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɔj.ɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔjɐ
* Hyphenation: boi‧a

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* bóia (pre-1990 spelling)

#### Noun

boia f (plural boias)
* float (buoyant device used to support something in water)
* (nautical) buoy, marker
    Synonym: baliza
* (informal) meal

##### Derived terms

* aboiar
* boia de salvação
* boiado
* boiante
* boiar

##### Descendants

* → Swahili: boya

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

boia
* inflection of boiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بویا (boya).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boˈja/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: bo‧ia

### Noun

boia f (plural boiele)
* (Moldavia (region)) paint
* paprika (powder used as a spice)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* boia in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)