boiar

boiar (plural boiars)

1. Alternative form of boyar.
   • 2010, Richard Wortman, “[Fedor] Solntsev, [Alexey] Olenin, and the Development of a Russian National Aesthetic”, in Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, editor, Visualizing Russia: Fedor Solntsev and Crafting a National Past (Russian History and Culture; 4), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 40:

     “Our travelers,” he [Mikhail Pogodin] wrote, “were captivated only when the Russian spirit was realized before their eyes, when they saw the way our pretty Russian girls and our fine fellows (molodtsy) were dressed. They appeared before us in their grandfathers’ kaftans—staid boiars, majestic boiarins. What delight, what splendor, what variety, what beauty, what poetry!”

• “boiar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Boria, bario-

Ultimately from Russian боя́рин (bojárin).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈjar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [boˈja]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [boˈjaɾ]

boiar m (plural boiars)

1. boyar

From boia +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈja]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [boˈja]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [boˈjaɾ]

boiar (first-person singular present boio, first-person singular preterite boí, past participle boiat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (intransitive, nautical) to float (especially something which has been submerged)
2. (intransitive, figurative) to prosper, to succeed

• surar

• boiant

• “boiar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From boia +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: boi‧ar

boiar (first-person singular present boio, first-person singular preterite boiei, past participle boiado)

1. to float

   Synonym: flutuar

2. to waft
3. to drown