بور

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See also: ثور, توژ, پور, پوز, بوز, and تور

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ب و ر (b-w-r)

Compare بَارَ (bāra, to lie fallow).

Adjective

بُور (būr)

  1. fallow, uncultivated
  2. stagnant, waste-
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

بَوَّرَ (bawwara) II, non-past يُبَوِّرُ‎ (yubawwiru)

  1. to let lie fallow, to leave uncultivated, to leave unsown
  2. to make unprofitable, to make useless
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

بَوْر (bawrm

  1. verbal noun of بَارَ (bāra) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 4

Proper noun

بُور (būr?

  1. Bor (a city in South Sudan)

Etymology 5

Noun

بور (būr)

  1. Synonym of مرفأ, port, harbor

Khalaj

Adjective

بور (bûor)

  1. Arabic spelling of bûor (nut-brown)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic بُور (būr).

Adjective

بور (bur)

  1. (of land) unfit for cultivation; waste-
  2. useless

Etymology 2

From Persian بور.

Adjective

بور (bur)

  1. roan

Etymology 3

From French bore.

Noun

بور (bor)

  1. boron

References

Persian

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Etymology 1

From Middle Persian (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/, reddish-brown, bay ). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, yellow), Northern Kurdish bor (grey) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, hyena). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (brown).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? bōr
Dari reading? bōr
Iranian reading? bur
Tajik reading? bür

Adjective

Dari بور
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯр

بور (bur)

  1. fair, blonde
  2. reddish brown, bay
  3. (dialectal) brown
Descendants
  • Khalaj: bûor

See also

Further reading

Etymology 2

From French.

Noun

بور (bor)

  1. boron

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from English bore.

Pronunciation

Adjective

بور (bor) (Hindi spelling बोर)

  1. bored

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu بور (bōr).

Adjective

بور (bōr) (noun)

  1. suffering from boredom

Uyghur

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Chagatai بور (bor), from Proto-Turkic *bōr. Cognates with Bashkir бур (bur), Kazakh бор (bor), Tatar акбур (aqbur), aqbur, Uzbek boʻr.

Noun

بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. chalk
    Synonym: ئاقبور (aqbor)

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: بېرىللىي (bërilliy) (Be)
Next: كاربون (karbon) (C)

From Russian бор (bor).

Noun

بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. (chemistry) boron

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN