bora

From Gamilaraay būru.

• Bora

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...

• burbung

• bora ground

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

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?

• Abor, Baro, baro-, boar, broa

bora

1. definite nominative singular of borë

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

• IPA^(key): /βoɾa/

bora

1. ball

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

From Proto-Brythonic *bọreɣ, from Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Cognate with Breton beure (“morning”) and Welsh bore (“morning”).

bora m (plural boraow)

1. dawn

• myttin (“morning”)
• mo (“dusk”)

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bora m (plural borys)

1. boar

   Synonyms: torgh, badh

• IPA^(key): /bóː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

bōrā̀ f (possessed form bōràr̃)

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

• mōwā̀

bor +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: bo‧ra

bora

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːra/
• Rhymes: -ɔːra

From Old Norse bora (“to drill”)

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

1. to bore, drill

From Old Norse bora, from bora (“to drill”).

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)

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

bora m

1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of bor

Ultimately from Latin borea.

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

bora f (plural bore)

1. bora (north-eastern wind)

• Orba, baro, baro-, barò, orba, roba

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

bora f

1. storm, torrential rain, gust of wind

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

bora m

1. genitive singular of bors

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpoːra/

bōra

1. boron

• 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpora/

bora

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

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

bora

1. bow

• borene n or m (of bor, Etymology 2)
• boret (of bore)

bora n

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

bora

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

• borane

bora n or m

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

bora

1. imperative singular of borian

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

bora

1. to bore

bora f (genitive boru, plural borur)

1. a drilling hole

• Norwegian Nynorsk: bore f

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bora

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bora”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• bura

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

bora

1. to drill, penetrate

• Swedish: borra

Clipping of embora, from the phrase vamos embora.

• Hyphenation: bo‧ra

bora

1. (informal) let's go

   Synonyms: vamos, vamos lá, vambora, vamo lá, vamo

   Bora! ― Let's go!

bora

1. (informal) hortative and cohortative particle; let's

   Synonyms: vamos, vamo

   Bora comprar algo para comer? ― How about we buy something to eat?

• IPA^(key):

bora

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of borî

• bura (Sutsilvan)

bora f (plural boras)

1. (sports, Surmiran) ball

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

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)

1. wrinkle
2. (geology) fold

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

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bora (invariable)

1. fine, excellent, splendid
2. better
3. best

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -boresha (“to improve”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • ubora (“quality”)

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

bora class 14 (plural mara)

1. bow

bora

1. dative singular of bor

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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.

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.

From bó (“to peel”) +‎ ara (“body”).

• IPA^(key): /bó.ɾā/

bóra

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

• ìbóra (“skin bleaching”)

From bo (“to cover”) +‎ ara (“body”).

• IPA^(key): /bō.ɾā/

bora

1. to cover the body