obora

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See also: Obora, oborą, Oborą, ôbora, and òbòra

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech obora, from Proto-Slavic *obòra (enclosure).

Pronunciation

Noun

obora f

  1. game reserve

Declension

Descendants

  • Slovak: obora
  • Slovene: obọ̑ra (tonal orthography)

Further reading

  • obora in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • obora in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • obora in Internetová jazyková příručka

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obòra (enclosure).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈobora/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈobora/

Noun

obora f

  1. enclosure (system of walls enclosing some space in its perimeter)
  2. enclosure (fenced land for free breeding of animals)
  3. game reserve
  4. whole, summary; complex

Declension

Descendants

References

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obòra (enclosure).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /ɔbɔra/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ɔbɔra/

Noun

obora f

  1. (attested in Masovia) animal enclosure (fenced area (with or without a building) where pets are kept)
    • 1950 [1428], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 2879, Warsaw:
      Jacom ya nye wiwarl bidla s Barnathowi obori
      [Jakom ja nie wywarł bydła z Barnatowy obory]
  2. (attested in Masovia) breeding-ground (land estate belonging to a lord, where cattle and horses were bred and seized movable property, cattle, etc. were kept)
    • 1879 [1416], Jan Tadeusz Lubomirski, editor, Księga ziemi czerskiej 1404-1425. Liber terrae Cernensis, Masovia, page 88:
      Pacosz yanl panoszø mego y sz konem... y kon do kxanszey obory dal
      [Pakosz jął panoszę mego i z koniem... y koń do księżej obory dał]
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Descendants

References

Polish

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obora

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish obora.

Noun

obora f (diminutive obórka, related adjective oborowy)

  1. cowshed, cowhouse, byre (building for keeping animals)
  2. (metonymically) livestock kept in such a building
  3. purebred cattle breeding center
  4. (Middle Polish) breeding-ground (land estate belonging to a lord, where cattle and horses were bred and seized movable property, cattle, etc. were kept)
  5. (Middle Polish) hut; tent
Declension
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *obora (string).

Noun

obora f

  1. (obsolete or regional) string for tying a lapti to a leg
    • 1854, Adam Pług (Antoni Pietkiewicz), Zagon rodzinny : zbiór obrazków, gawęd i fraszek rymowanych i nierymowanych, , volume 1, page 46:
      Ubrany był w krótką płócienną kapotę z mosiężnym guzikami, w takież szarawary i w łapcie z rzemiennymi oborami.
      He was dressed in a short linen greatcoat with brass buttons and these galligaskins and around his laptis were rawhide strings.
Declension

Further reading

  • obora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • obora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “obora”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • OBORA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 07.05.2010
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “obora”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “obora”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “obora”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 494

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech obora, from Proto-Slavic *obòra (enclosure).

Noun

obora f

  1. game reserve
    Synonyms: zvernica, zverník

Declension

References

  1. ^ Machek, Václav (1968) “obora”, in Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia, page 406

Further reading

  • obora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024