boya

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color
dye
tint, hue
paint

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/bojɑ/

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish

Cognate with Bashkir

Cognate with Kazakh

Cognate with Kyrgyz

Cognate with Mongolian

Cognate with Northern Kurdish

Cognate with Zaza

In summary

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.