different between boyar vs boyau

English

Alternative forms

• boyard
• bolyard

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (bojáre), plural of ??????? (bojárin).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????/, /?b??j??/, /b???j??/

Noun

boyar (plural boyars)

1. (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
   • 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin 1998, p. 159:

     Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.

   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 68:

     A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 514:

     some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.

Synonyms

• barin

Translations

Anagrams

• baryo-

Spanish

Etymology

boya +? -ar

Verb

boyar (first-person singular present boyo, first-person singular preterite boyé, past participle boyado)

1. (intransitive) to float

Conjugation

Further reading

• “boyar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French boyau. Doublet of bowel.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bw??j??/, /?b????/

Noun

boyau (plural boyaus)

1. (military) A small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines.
2. A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works.

Translations

References

• (military definition) Military Earthworks Terms, Historic Landscape Initiative, National Park Service. URL accessed 2007-01-29.
• (winding line definition) This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

Anagrams

• Ayoub, Yoabu, bayou

French

Etymology

From Old French boiel, bouel, from Latin botellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bwa.jo/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

boyau m (plural boyaux)

1. (anatomy) gut, intestine (of an animal, or, informally of a human)
2. catgut, gut
3. (military) communication trench, boyau

Synonyms

• (gut): intestin

Descendants

• ? English: boyau

See also

• entrailles

Further reading

• “boyau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).