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Aragonese
Noun
boira f
- cloud
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin boreās, from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation
Noun
boira f (plural boires)
- fog
- mist
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Verb
boira
- third-person singular future of boire
Le roi boira demain, tout le monde le sait.- The king will drink tomorrow, everyone knows it.
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
Attested since circa 1750. From Latin boreās, from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation
Noun
boira f (plural boiras)
- fog, drizzle
- puddle created by rain on crop fields
References
- “boira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “boira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed, via Aragonese boira, from Catalan boira, from Latin boreās (“north wind”), from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboiɾa/
- Rhymes: -oiɾa
- Syllabification: boi‧ra
Noun
boira f (plural boiras)
- fog
- Synonym: niebla
Further reading
- “boira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “boira”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 614