bora
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Gamilaraay būru.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bora (plural boras)
- 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 edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
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 edit
bora
- 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 edit
Anagrams edit
Chibcha edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bora
References edit
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Hausa edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bōrā̀ f (possessed form bōràr̃)
- less-favored wife, wife who is not her husband's favorite
See also edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bora
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of bor
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”) (Icelandic bor).
Verb edit
bora (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative boraði, supine borað)
- (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
Conjugation edit
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að bora | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
borað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
borandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég bora | við borum | present (nútíð) |
ég bori | við borum |
þú borar | þið borið | þú borir | þið borið | ||
hann, hún, það borar | þeir, þær, þau bora | hann, hún, það bori | þeir, þær, þau bori | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég boraði | við boruðum | past (þátíð) |
ég boraði | við boruðum |
þú boraðir | þið boruðuð | þú boraðir | þið boruðuð | ||
hann, hún, það boraði | þeir, þær, þau boruðu | hann, hún, það boraði | þeir, þær, þau boruðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
bora (þú) | borið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
boraðu | boriði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að borast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
borast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
borandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég borast | við borumst | present (nútíð) |
ég borist | við borumst |
þú borast | þið borist | þú borist | þið borist | ||
hann, hún, það borast | þeir, þær, þau borast | hann, hún, það borist | þeir, þær, þau borist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég boraðist | við boruðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég boraðist | við boruðumst |
þú boraðist | þið boruðust | þú boraðist | þið boruðust | ||
hann, hún, það boraðist | þeir, þær, þau boruðust | hann, hún, það boraðist | þeir, þær, þau boruðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
borast (þú) | borist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
borastu | boristi * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
boraður | boruð | borað | boraðir | boraðar | boruð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
boraðan | boraða | borað | boraða | boraðar | boruð | |
dative (þágufall) |
boruðum | boraðri | boruðu | boruðum | boruðum | boruðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
boraðs | boraðrar | boraðs | boraðra | boraðra | boraðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
boraði | boraða | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu |
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse bora, from bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”).
Noun edit
bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)
Declension edit
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
bora m
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bora f (plural bore)
- bora (north-eastern wind)
Anagrams edit
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Greek βορράς (vorrás, “north; violent north wind”), from Ancient Greek Βορρᾶς (Borrhâs).
Noun edit
bora f (Latin spelling)
- storm, torrential rain, gust of wind
Further reading edit
Latvian edit
Noun edit
bora m
Northern Sami edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bōra
Inflection edit
Even a-stem, no gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bora
- inflection of borrat:
Northern Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.
Noun edit
bora
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bora n
Verb edit
bora
- inflection of bore:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bora n or m
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *burōną (“to drill, pierce, bore”).
Verb edit
bora
- to bore
Conjugation edit
infinitive | bora | |
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present participle | borandi | |
past participle | boraðr | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | bora | boraða |
2nd-person singular | borar | boraðir |
3rd-person singular | borar | boraði |
1st-person plural | borum | boruðum |
2nd-person plural | borið | boruðuð |
3rd-person plural | bora | boruðu |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | bora | boraða |
2nd-person singular | borir | boraðir |
3rd-person singular | bori | boraði |
1st-person plural | borim | boraðim |
2nd-person plural | borið | boraðið |
3rd-person plural | bori | boraði |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | bora | |
1st-person plural | borum | |
2nd-person plural | borið |
infinitive | borask | |
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present participle | borandisk | |
past participle | borazk | |
indicative | present | past |
1st-person singular | borumk | boruðumk |
2nd-person singular | borask | boraðisk |
3rd-person singular | borask | boraðisk |
1st-person plural | borumsk | boruðumsk |
2nd-person plural | borizk | boruðuzk |
3rd-person plural | borask | boruðusk |
subjunctive | present | past |
1st-person singular | borumk | boruðumk |
2nd-person singular | borisk | boraðisk |
3rd-person singular | borisk | boraðisk |
1st-person plural | borimsk | boraðimsk |
2nd-person plural | borizk | boraðizk |
3rd-person plural | borisk | boraðisk |
imperative | present | |
2nd-person singular | borask | |
1st-person plural | borumsk | |
2nd-person plural | borizk |
Descendants edit
Noun edit
bora f (genitive boru, plural borur)
Declension edit
Descendants edit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bore f
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
bora
- inflection of borr:
References edit
- “bora”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Verb edit
bora
Conjugation edit
present | past | ||||
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infinitive | bora | — | |||
participle | borandi, -e | boraþer | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | borar | bori, -e | — | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
þū | borar | bori, -e | bora | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
han | borar | bori, -e | — | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
vīr | borum, -om | borum, -om | borum, -om | boraþum, -om | boraþum, -om |
īr | borin | borin | borin | boraþin | boraþin |
þēr | bora | borin | — | boraþu, -o | boraþin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
þū | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
han | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
vīr | borums, -oms | borums, -oms | — | boraþums, -oms | boraþums, -oms |
īr | borins | borins | — | boraþins | boraþins |
þēr | boras | borins | — | boraþus, -os | boraþins |
Descendants edit
- Swedish: borra
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of embora. From the phrase vamos embora.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bo‧ra
Interjection edit
bora
Particle edit
bora
Romanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bora
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
- bura (Sutsilvan)
Noun edit
bora f (plural boras)
Synonyms edit
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)
Declension edit
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, “large, great, massive; important; very”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
bora (invariable)
Derived terms edit
Tswana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.
Noun edit
bora class 14 (plural mara)
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bora
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورا (bora, “squall, tempest”), possibly a derivation from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”).[1] 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 edit
bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)
- (meteorology) squall.
- (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 edit
- ^ 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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
From bó (“to peel”) + ara (“body”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bóra
- (transitive) to bleach one's skin; to lighten one's skin
- (literal) to peel one's body
Derived terms edit
- ìbóra (“skin bleaching”)
Etymology 2 edit
From bo (“to cover”) + ara (“body”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bora