boer

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

  1. A farmer; peasant.
  2. (chess) A pawn; least valuable piece in chess.
    Synonym: pion
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: Boer

Etymology 2

From Dutch boeren.

Verb

boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer)

  1. To farm.
  2. To continuously encounter someone at a specific place
    Hy boer daar by haar huis.
    He is always there at her house.
  3. To stay; to sojourn; to linger
    Hy't die heel middag by daardie meisie geboer.
    He stayed over at that girl the whole afternoon.
    Moenie op 'n vraag boer nie.
    Don't linger on a question.

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

  1. A Boer.
Inflection
Declension of boer
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative boer boeren boere boerne
genitive boers boerens boeres boernes
Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

boer

  1. indefinite plural of bo

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːr/
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  • Hyphenation: boer
  • Rhymes: -ur
  • Homophone: Boer

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -ū- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English būr, ġebūr (whence English bower) and Old High German būr (whence German Bauer).

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin)

  1. A (male) farmer, peasant.
    Synonym: bouwman
    Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder
  2. A boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic.
    Synonym: boerenpummel
  3. (in compounds) A merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
  4. A jack (playing card).
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Originally onomatopoeic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen.

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

  1. A belch, a burp.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boer

  1. inflection of boeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

boer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of boō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne)

  1. (historical) A Boer.

Related terms

See also

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boerar, definite plural boerane)

  1. (pre-1987) alternative form of boar

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