бойу

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bodog. Cognate with Kazakh бояу (boäu), Kyrgyz боёк (boyok), Crimean Tatar boya, Karaim bojav, Kumyk бояв (boyaw), Bashkir буяу (buyaw), Tatar буяу (buyaw), Azerbaijani boya, Turkish boya, Turkmen boýag, Tuvan будук (buduk), etc.

Noun

бойу • (boyu)

1. dye, color

Related terms

• бойо- (boyo-, “to color, paint, dye”)
• бойучы (boyučï, “painter”)
• бойулу (boyulu)

References

L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “page:67”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ [Teleut–Russian Dictionary], Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN.