بوزا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

بوزه (boza)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (bōza, “boza”), a word related to (bowzak, “yeast; mould”), perhaps through Old Turkic [script needed] (buχsı /⁠busï⁠/), even though Nişanyan argues that a relation between Persian and Turkic is not apparent.

Noun

بوزا • (boza)

boza, a fermented and sometimes alcoholic drink made from wheat or millet

Derived terms

بوزاجی (bozacı, “maker or seller of boza”)
بوزاخانه (bozahane, “boza shop”)

Descendants

Turkish: boza
→ Albanian: bozë
→ Arabic: بُوظَة (būẓa), بُوظَا (būẓā, bōẓā), بُوزَة (būza, bōza)
→ Armenian: պօզա (pōza)
→ Bulgarian: боза́ (bozá)
→ Greek: μποζάς (bozás)
→ Macedonian: боза (boza)
→ Romanian: boza
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: бо́за
- Latin script: bóza

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boza”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوزه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 287
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوزا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 397