боярин

From Old East Slavic бояринъ (bojarinŭ), from Old Church Slavonic болꙗринъ (boljarinŭ), from Bulgar, attested in Greek variously as βωυλε, βοιλας, βοηλας, βουληα, βοιλᾶς, βολιᾶς. The form with -j- might have come from contamination with Old East Slavic бои (boi).

• IPA^(key): [bɐˈjærʲɪn]

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боя́рин • (bojárin) m anim (genitive боя́рина, nominative plural боя́ре, genitive plural боя́р, feminine боя́рыня)

1. (historical) boyar

• ба́рин (bárin) (a more modern term)

• боярка (bojarka) (a type of hat)
• боя́рский (bojárskij)
• боярство (bojarstvo)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “боярин”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv O. N., Moscow: Progress