بوظة

Arabic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوزه (boza).

Alternative forms

• بُوظَا (būẓā, bōẓā), بُوزَة (būza, bōza)

Noun

بُوظَة • (būẓa or bōẓa) f

1. boza, or a beverage produced by fermentation
   • 1850, محمد بن عمر التونسي [Muḥammad Ibn-ʿUmar at-Tūnisī ], edited by Humphrey Davies, تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان [In Darfur. An Account of the Sultanate and Its People] (Library of Arabic Literature; 15), volume 2, New York: NYU Press, published 2018, →ISBN, 3.2.6, page 108:

     فمنهم يأتونهم بالعصائد والمزر المسمّى في مصر بالبوزة واللحم السليق والشواءَ

     Some are brought different kinds of flour-and-butter paste and the ale that in Egypt is called būza, as well as boiled meat and grilled meats.

Declension

Declension of noun بُوظَة (būẓa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بُوظَة būẓa	الْبُوظَة al-būẓa	بُوظَة būẓat
Nominative	بُوظَةٌ būẓatun	الْبُوظَةُ al-būẓatu	بُوظَةُ būẓatu
Accusative	بُوظَةً būẓatan	الْبُوظَةَ al-būẓata	بُوظَةَ būẓata
Genitive	بُوظَةٍ būẓatin	الْبُوظَةِ al-būẓati	بُوظَةِ būẓati

Etymology 2

Likely derived from Ottoman Turkish بوز (buz, “ice”).

Alternative forms

• بُوزَة (būza), بُوز (būz)

Noun

بُوظَة • (būẓa) f

1. (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine) ice cream, booza

Declension

Declension of noun بُوظَة (būẓa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بُوظَة būẓa	الْبُوظَة al-būẓa	بُوظَة būẓat
Nominative	بُوظَةٌ būẓatun	الْبُوظَةُ al-būẓatu	بُوظَةُ būẓatu
Accusative	بُوظَةً būẓatan	الْبُوظَةَ al-būẓata	بُوظَةَ būẓata
Genitive	بُوظَةٍ būẓatin	الْبُوظَةِ al-būẓati	بُوظَةِ būẓati

References

• Procházka, Stephan (2004) “The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon”, in Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 194
• Procházka, Stephan (2009) “Turkish Loanwords”, in Versteegh, Kees, editor, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, volume 4, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 591
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “بوظة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

• بوزة (būza)

Etymology

Likely derived from Ottoman Turkish بوز (buz, “ice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buː.zˤa/, [ˈbuː.zˤɑ]

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Noun

بوظة • (būẓa) f

1. ice cream