Where does “boya fırçası” come from?

boya fırçası (Turkish) comes from Turkish boya, from Ottoman Turkish بویا, from Old Anatolian Turkish boyaɣ, from Old Anatolian Turkish boδaɣ, from Proto-Turkic bodog, from Hungarian boldog — happy; blessed, beatified.

boya fırçası (Turkish): paintbrush

Definitions

  1. paintbrush

Ancestry of “boya fırçası”, step by step

boya fırçası traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish boya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishboyacolor; dye; tint
2Ottoman Turkishبویاcolor; dye; paint
3Old Anatolian Turkishboyaɣdye
4Old Anatolian Turkishboδaɣ—
5Proto-Turkicbodogpaint, dye
6Hungarianboldoghappy; blessed, beatified

via Turkish fırça

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishfırçabrush
2Ottoman Turkishفرچهbrush, oblong bristle implement for cleaning
3Byzantine Greekβρούτσαbrush
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