boyar
Spanish, verb/boˈʝaɾ/
boyar is spelled B-O-Y-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written Spanish, the 244,405th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Boyar is a Spanish verb meaning “to float” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Volver a flotar la embarcación que ha estado en seco”.
What does boyar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to float
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Volver a flotar la embarcación que ha estado en seco.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of boyar
- boyo first-person present singular
- boyé first-person preterite singular
- boyado participle past
- boyando gerund
- boyada feminine participle past
- boyados masculine participle past
- boyadas feminine participle past
- boyas indicative informal present
- boyás indicative informal present
- boya indicative present singular
- boyamos first-person indicative plural
- boyáis indicative plural present
- boyan indicative plural present
- boyaba first-person imperfect indicative
- boyabas imperfect indicative second-person
- boyábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- boyabais imperfect indicative plural
- boyaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce boyar?
- /boˈʝaɾ/
- [boˈʝaɾ]
- [boˈʃaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is boyar in Spanish?
boyar appears about once in every 48 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).