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Aragonese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin boreās, from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās).
Pronunciation
Noun
boira f
- fog
- cloud
References
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
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “boira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “boira”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 614