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boya.

color

4 characters1 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/boˈja/

  1. color

  2. dye

  3. tint, hue

  4. paint

Where this word comes from

Inherited 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 boyamak). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (boduɣ, “dye”), Karakhanid [script needed] (boδoɣ, “dye”), Bashkir буяу (bwyaw), Kazakh бояу (boyaw), 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.

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