different between boyar vs boyer

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

From Dutch boeijer, so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: compare French boyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???(?)/

Noun

boyer (plural boyers)

1. (nautical) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
   • 1651, Walter Raleigh, Observations touching trade and commerce with the Hollander and other nations

     they have many advantages of us; the one is, by their fashioned ships called boyers, hoybarks, hoys, and others […]

Anagrams

• Robey, ybore