Crossword clues for boyar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boyar \Bo*yar"\, Boyard \Bo*yard"\, n. [Russ. boi['a]rin'.] A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.
Note: English writers sometimes call Russian landed proprietors boyars. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
member of a Russian aristocratic class (abolished by Peter the Great), 1590s, from Russian boyarin, perhaps from boji "struggle," or from Slavic root *bol- "great."
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Wikipedia
A boyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Bulgarian, Moscovian, Ruthenian ( Ukraine and Belarus), Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes (in Bulgaria, tsars), from the 10th century to the 17th century. The rank has lived on as a surname in Russia, Ukraine and Romania, and also in Finland, where it is spelled Pajari.
The Boyar are a caste commonly found in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh India.
Usage examples of "boyar".
A surprisingly large number of people had given her a wide variety of things, which ranged from a beautiful book of the Gospels from Bishop Fedor, the stringed instrument called a gusli made of carved and polished wood with ivory pegs from Sadko, silks and linens from various merchants, and an assortment of jewels from the boyar families, to a simple piece of embroidered linen for a shift from two market-women who sold eggs, a little wood-carving of a bear stealing honey from a hollow tree from one of the palace doorkeepers, and a tiny icon of the Mother of God in enamel on copper from Brother Isak, the last three having been made by their donors.
Cheroos and Kharwars, Parheyas, Kisans, Bhuikers, Boyars, Nagbansis, Kaurs, Mars, Bhunyiars, Bendkars form another great group apart from the Kolarians and Dravidians, and approximating more to the Indian variety of the Japetic class.
It was precisely their foreign, un-Muscovite spirit that attracted the young boyars and scribes to these stories.
Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.
The considerable Vlach or Ruman colony in the Danubian districts dates from the 18th century, when large numbers of Walachian peasants sought a refuge on Turkish soil from the tyranny of the boyars or nobles: the department of Vidin alone contains 36 Ruman villages with a population of 30,550.
Cheroos and Kharwars, Parheyas, Kisans, Bhuikers, Boyars, Nagbansis, Kaurs, Mars, Bhunyiars, Bendkars form another great group apart from the Kolarians and Dravidians, and approximating more to the Indian variety of the Japetic class.
Her parents, rich once more, had first decided to start living in strict Russian style which they somehow associated with ornamental Slavic scriptory, postcards depicting sorrowing boyar maidens, varnished boxes bearing gaudy pyrogravures of troikas or firebirds, and the admirably produced, long since expired art magazines containing such wonderful photographs of old Russian manors and porcelain.
This he afterwards explained by saying that to a Boyar the pride of his house and name is his own pride, that their glory is his glory, that their fate is his fate.
They attach themselves as a rule to some great noble or boyar, and call themselves by his name.
I had released Victor from my service, though he still had served as a boyar in his district.
While the rest of his familia gasped, he considered what the boyar had said.
He smirked as he overheard the words the bishop said to the boyar as they stood in the square outside the cathedral.
Soldiers under the command of the boyar held back the stunned crowd and clergy in the square, while the rest of the men hurried to shift the woodpiles and start the blaze that would consume the cathedral from the outside.
The boyar had died long ago, and Istvan had made the discovery that he liked being clean.
The strigoi was a great lady, a boyar with a castle and many soldiers to protect her.