bora

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English

Etymology 1

From Gamilaraay būru.

Alternative forms

Noun

bora (plural boras)

  1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
    • 1873, William Ridley, “Report on Australian Languages and Traditions”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:
      Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
    • 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, “Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 14:
      By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (north wind) from Latin Boreās.

Noun

bora

  1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 650:
      When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?
Translations

Anagrams

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

Pronunciation

Noun

bora

  1. ball

References

  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Hausa

Pronunciation

Noun

bōrā̀ f (possessed form bōràr̃)

  1. less-favored wife, wife who is not her husband's favorite

See also

Hungarian

Etymology

bor +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ra

Noun

bora

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of bor

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bora
accusative borát
dative borának
instrumental borával
causal-final boráért
translative borává
terminative boráig
essive-formal boraként
essive-modal borául
inessive borában
superessive borán
adessive boránál
illative borába
sublative borára
allative borához
elative borából
delative boráról
ablative borától
non-attributive
possessive - singular
boráé
non-attributive
possessive - plural
boráéi

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bora (to drill), from borr (drill) (Icelandic bor).

Verb

bora (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative boraði, supine borað)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bora, from bora (to drill), from borr (drill).

Noun

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)

  1. hole (small and undesirable abode)
  2. butthole (anus)
Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bora m

  1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of bor

Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin borea.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔra
  • Hyphenation: bò‧ra

Noun

bora f (plural bore)

  1. bora (north-eastern wind)

Anagrams

Ladino

Etymology

From Greek βορράς (vorrás, north; violent north wind), from Ancient Greek Βορρᾶς (Borrhâs).

Noun

bora f (Latin spelling)

  1. storm, torrential rain, gust of wind

Further reading

  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977), “bóra”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 96

Latvian

Noun

bora m

  1. genitive singular of bors

Northern Sami

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpoːra/

Noun

bōra

  1. boron
Inflection
Even a-stem, no gradation
Nominative bōra
Genitive bōra
Singular Plural
Nominative bōra bōrat
Accusative bōra bōraid
Genitive bōra bōraid
Illative bōrii bōraide
Locative bōras bōrain
Comitative bōrain bōraiguin
Essive bōran
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person bōran bōrame bōramet
2nd person bōrat bōrade bōradet
3rd person bōras bōraska bōraset
Further reading
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpora/

Verb

bora

  1. inflection of borrat:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

Noun

bora

  1. bow

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

bora n

  1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Verb

bora

  1. inflection of bore:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

bora n or m

  1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *burōną (to drill, pierce, bore).

Verb

bora

  1. to bore
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Icelandic: bora
  • Faroese: bora
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bore
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bore
  • Old Swedish: bora, bura
  • Danish: bore
  • Gutnish: bure, bur', bura

Noun

bora f (genitive boru, plural borur)

  1. a drilling hole
Declension
Descendants
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bore f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bora

  1. inflection of borr:
    1. indefinite accusative plural
    2. indefinite genitive plural

References

  • bora”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.

Verb

bora

  1. to drill, penetrate

Conjugation

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

Clipping of embora. From the phrase vamos embora.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bo‧ra

Interjection

bora

  1. (informal) let's go
    Synonyms: vamos, vamos lá, vambora, vamo lá, vamo
    Bora!Let's go!

Particle

bora

  1. (informal) hortative and cohortative particle; let's
    Synonyms: vamos, vamo
    Bora comprar algo para comer?How about we buy something to eat?

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

bora

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of borî

Romansch

Alternative forms

Noun

bora f (plural boras)

  1. (sports, Surmiran) ball

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)

  1. wrinkle
  2. (geology) fold

Declension

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, large, great, massive; important; very).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

bora (invariable)

  1. fine, excellent
  2. better
  3. best

Derived terms

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

Noun

bora class 14 (plural mara)

  1. bow

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

bora

  1. dative singular of bor

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورا (bora, squall, tempest), possibly a derivation from Proto-Turkic *bora- (north wind; to snow heavily). Cognate with Crimean Tatar and Turkmen boran, Bashkir буран (buran), Kazakh боран (boran). Or a wanderword, compare Italian bora, ultimately from Latin borea and, Greek μπόρα (mpóra). The same root as bora is found in the name of the Greek mythological figure of Boreas (Βορέας). Scholars argue, the Serbo-Croatian name bura and Slovene burja are not etymologically related to bora; they derive from Common Slavic burja 'storm' (from the verb *burĭti), and the meaning 'bora' developed later.

Noun

bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)

  1. (meteorology) squall.
  2. (often nautical) more specifically the bora is a northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind. Regardless of its direction, it can gather a hurricane-strength, thus it is a storm too.

References

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

Yoruba

Etymology 1

From (to peel) +‎ ara (body).

Pronunciation

Verb

bóra

  1. (transitive) to bleach one's skin; to lighten one's skin
  2. (literal) to peel one's body
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From bo (to cover) +‎ ara (body).

Pronunciation

Verb

bora

  1. to cover the body