bori

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish (borı, horn; natural trumpet)

Noun

bori f (plural bori)

  1. bugle
  2. trumpet

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bori”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 87

Esperanto

Etymology

From English bore and German bohren.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ori
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ri

Verb

bori (present boras, past boris, future boros, conditional borus, volitive boru)

  1. to bore (make a hole in)
  2. to drill

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • trabori (to pierce, puncture)

Hausa

Practioners of bori in the roles of various spirits (photographed in 1914).

Pronunciation

Noun

bṑrī m (possessed form bṑrin)

  1. animistic spirit possession religion

Icelandic

Verb

bori

  1. first-person singular active present subjunctive of bora
  2. third-person singular active present subjunctive of bora
  3. third-person plural active present subjunctive of bora

Italian

Verb

bori

  1. inflection of boriarsi:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Participle

bori

  1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of boren
  2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of boren

Verb

bori

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of bera

Etymology 2

Noun

bori n

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of bor

Romani

Etymology

Three etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀳𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀆 (vahuliā), from Sanskrit वधूटी (vadhūṭī).
  2. Inherited from Sanskrit व्यवहारिका (vyavahārikā, female servant).
  3. Borrowed from Iranian.

Noun

bori f (nominative plural borǎ)

  1. bride, newly-wed woman
  2. daughter-in-law
  3. sister-in-law

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “borí”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 34b
  2. 2.0 2.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vadhūṭī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 656
  3. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vyavahārikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 705
  4. ^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bor/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 90b-91a
  6. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “bori”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

Further reading

  • Milena Hübschmannová (2002 September) “Bori (Daughter in law)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database, Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021
  • Carol Silverman (2012 May) “Transnational Celebrations”, in Romani Routes: Cultural Politics & Balkan Music in Diaspora, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85
  • Bori”, in RomArchive, (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on October 20, 2021

Romanian

Verb

a bori (third-person singular present borie, past participle borit) 4th conj.

  1. Obsolete form of borî.

Conjugation

References

  • bori in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English boil.

Pronunciation

Verb

bori

  1. to cook
    • 2002, “A dei di mi bron misrefi”, in SIL - Languages of Suriname:
      A ben de so taki wan dei mi mama ben bori okro.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to boil

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dutch: borie

Ternate

bori

Pronunciation

Noun

bori

  1. the plant Anamirta cocculus; its seeds are crushed to make a fish poison

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

Etymology

Compare East Makian bolit (to sharpen).

Pronunciation

Verb

bori

  1. (transitive) to sharpen

Conjugation

Conjugation of bori (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tobori mobori abori
2nd person nobori fobori
3rd person inanimate ibori dobori
animate
imperative nobori, bori fobori, bori

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics