请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 boyar
释义

boyarn.

Brit. /ˈbɔɪɑː/, /ˈbəʊjɑː/, /bəʊˈjɑː/, U.S. /boʊˈjɑr/
Forms:

α. 1500s boiaren, 1500s boiaron, 1600s boyaren, 1800s boyarine, 1800s– boyarin, 1900s– boiarin.

β. 1600s– bojar, 1600s– boyar, 1800s boiar.

γ. 1700s– boyard Brit. /ˈbɔɪəd/, /ˈbɔɪɑːd/, U.S. /ˈbɔɪərd/.

Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymons: Russian bojarin", bojare.
Etymology: In α. forms < Old Russian bojarin" (also boljarin" ; Russian (now historical) bojarin ) high-ranking member of the Muscovite Russian aristocracy of the 15th–17th centuries, in earlier sources (chiefly Old Russian chronicles) also feudal landowner, chief adviser of a Slavic prince; further etymology uncertain and disputed. In β. forms < Old Russian bojare (Russian bojare ), nominative plural of bojarin" . In γ. forms apparently after French boyard (1721; 1571 in Middle French as boyart ), alteration (with suffix substitution: compare -ard , -art -ard suffix) of †boyare (1415 in Middle French; also 1575 in Middle French as †boyar , 1637 as †boiare , 1692 as boïar (now rare), etc.) < Old Russian bojare . In sense 2 after Romanian (now historical) boier member of a landowning, privileged, and politically powerful class in Wallachia, Moldavia, and latterly Romania (1432), itself < a South Slavonic language, probably Bulgarian. Compare Old Church Slavonic boljarinŭ, (in later sources) bojarinŭ grandee (plural boljare; Bulgarian boljarin), Polish bojar, bojarzyn (both early 15th cent., the former originally denoting a Muscovite Russian or Lithuanian nobleman, the latter originally in sense ‘soldier, warrior’).The Slavonic word was also borrowed into other European languages; compare Byzantine Greek βοϊλᾶς (singular), βοϊλάδες, βολιάδες (plural), Serbian and Croatian boljar ( < Old Church Slavonic and Bulgarian respectively), Middle High German boyar (1331; German Bojar, Bojare, †Boyar; < Russian), post-classical Latin boiarus (1470 in a Polish source), Italian (now historical) boiaro (1550 in a translation of a post-classical Latin work about Muscovite Russia; subsequently from the 19th cent.; also †bogliaro, †boiar, †bojaro, etc.; < post-classical Latin), also boiardo (1674; < French).
1.
a. A member of an order of Russian aristocracy, next in rank to a prince. Now historical.Boyars were entitled to many exclusive privileges, and held high military and civil offices. The order was abolished by Peter the Great.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > Russian
boyar1555
1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 289 v They are compelled to bee at theyr owne charges, excepte the younge gentelmen the soonnes of the Boiarons, that is, the noble men of the lowest degree.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xi. f. 34v The Emperours of Russia giue the name of counsellour to diuers of their chiefe Nobilitie... These are called Boiarens.
1607 W. Russell Rep. Massacre in Citty of Mosco sig. A4v The widdowes, and daughters of the great Lordes, and Boyars of the countrie.
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State in Remains (1661) 43 As the Turk, his Ianizaries; the Russe, his Boyarens.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1077/1 Then the Bojars, which are the most eminent persons in this Countrey.
1716 J. Perry State of Russia 142 The old Boyars..ruled the former Czars by whatsoever superstitious and biggotted Schemes and Notions they had a Mind to.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 77 Not only the common people but many of the boyards or nobles.
1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) II. xii. 275 You must have heard of the wealthy Vakareskolo, Cresus of Boyars,—he who thought himself so secure from being fleeced.
1865 Spectator 11 Feb. 151 The older families of Russia retain the traditions of the boyars and of their power to a dangerous degree.
1947 K. S. Walker Brief for Ballet 49 A Latvian tale..about the rivalry between a daughter and her step-mother for the favours of a young boyard.
1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) ii. i. 45 Feuding within princely families was a constant problem, while retainers, both boyars and peasants, were able to transfer their allegiance from one to another.
b. In extended use: a landowning, privileged, or politically powerful Russian.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful person
mightfula1325
mightya1382
potestatec1384
mightanda1400
potentatec1475
potent1568
leviathan1606
grandeur1632
strongman1764
huzoor1776
hegemon1829
prince1841
boyar1846
power-holder1854
baron1876
overlord1908
ayatollah1979
the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > other specific landowners
lord1653
poligar1672
talukdār1793
mirasdar1796
boyar1846
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] > member of > in former Soviet Union or communist countries
nomenklatura1958
nomenclature1959
boyar1968
1846 Times 15 May 5/2 The elegant society of Naples employs its leisure moments in turning into ridicule her Muscovite Majesty, as well as all the boyards, male and female, that accompany her.
1879 H. S. Edwards Russians I. 202 The rich ‘boyars’ (as foreigners persist in styling the Russian proprietors of the present day).
1968 G. F. Hudson Fifty Years of Communism ix. 109 All was not well even for the new ‘boyars of the bureaucracy’.
2005 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Mar. (Central ed.) a1/3 The spectacular assault on the electricity boyar and privatization architect shows Russian business's Wild West era may not be over.
2. A member of a landowning, privileged, and politically powerful class in Wallachia and Moldavia, and latterly Romania, who remained influential into the early 20th cent. Now historical.
ΚΠ
1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 1434 The Turks totally defeated the Prince of Vallachia,..8000 being slain upon the place, and a great number of prisoners taken; among whom, were divers Boyars, the principal Officers of that Prince.
1789 Times 10 Dec. 2/1 The Boyars and Nobles, with the Clergy, went out in a body to meet the Prince de Cobourg, who in the midst of them made his entrance into the city [sc. Bucharest].
1858 Times 28 Aug. 10/1 The Boyards [of Romania] are not an aristocracy of birth or wealth; they are simply a privileged class.
1897 B. Stoker Dracula iii. 29 This he afterwards explained by saying that to a boyar the pride of his house and name is his own pride.
1939 E. Lengyel Danube iii. ii. 389 He [sc. the peasant] was given land after the [First World] War from the boyars' large estates.
1975 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 35 72 The villas of pre-1914 Bucharest easily compare to some of the most lavish residences built in the United States during that era, although the typical owner was a wealthy boyar or merchant rather than an industrialist.
2005 R. Sabates-Wheeler Cooperation in Romanian Countryside 73 When the communist government expropriated the land of Boyars and large landholders in the 1940s, these lands were generally incorporated into newly formed State Cooperative farms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1555
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/6/8 3:36:14