بوزا

Ottoman Turkish

بوزا

Alternative forms

• بوزه (boza)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بوزه (bōza, “boza”), a word related to بوزک (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)

1. 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

Further reading

• 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