boza

• bosa

From Turkish boza. Derived from Ottoman Turkish بوزه (boza), from Karakhanid بخسى (buxsıː) or Karakhanid بخسم (buxsum).^[1] Nişanyan argues that the direction of interaction between Persian buχsum and the Turkish is unclear.^[2]

boza (countable and uncountable, plural bozas)

1. a fermented drink made from wheat or millet

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “buxsıː”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 320
• Nişanyan's Etymological Dictionary s.v. boza

• Boaz

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boza

1. grave^[1]

• hargintene
• hayk'ene
• tire

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوزه (boza).

boza f (plural bozale)

1. boza

• boza in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوزه (Turkish boza), from Persian بوزه (buze).

bóza f (Cyrillic spelling бо́за)

1. bosa (a fermented malt drink)

• IPA^(key): /ˈboθa/ [ˈbo.θa] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈbosa/ [ˈbo.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oθa (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -osa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: bo‧za

boza f (plural bozas)

1. boza

• “boza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

One of two possibilities:

• inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوزه, from Persian بوزه (buze).
• Possibly from bozmak ("to blemish, to blight, to spoil or ruin") and Ottoman Turkish بوز (boz) ("Gray, Brown" - referring to the color of the beverage).

• IPA^(key): [bozɑ]
• Hyphenation: bo‧za

boza (definite accusative bozayı, plural bozalar)

1. A fermented drink made from wheat or millet, bosa.

• bozacı

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boza

1. dative singular of boz

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boza

1. third-person singular optative of bozmak