English edit

Noun edit

bors

  1. plural of bor

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Afrikaans edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch borst, from Middle Dutch borst, from Old Dutch brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (to swell, blow, inflate).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bɔ(ː)rs/
  • (file)

Noun edit

bors (plural borste, diminutive borsie)

  1. chest
  2. breast

Albanian edit

 
Një bors mashkullor.

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From borë (snow) (var. vdor, zborë).

Noun edit

bors m (plural borsa, definite borsi, definite plural borsat)

  1. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
    Synonyms: avdos, borës

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Danish edit

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bors n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
  2. indefinite genitive plural of bor

Hungarian edit

 bors on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash пӑрӑҫ (părăś), dialectal Ottoman Turkish برج (burc), from an Iranian language[1] (see Persian مرچ (murč) for more).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bors (plural borsok)

  1. pepper (spice)

Declension edit

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bors borsok
accusative borsot borsokat
dative borsnak borsoknak
instrumental borssal borsokkal
causal-final borsért borsokért
translative borssá borsokká
terminative borsig borsokig
essive-formal borsként borsokként
essive-modal
inessive borsban borsokban
superessive borson borsokon
adessive borsnál borsoknál
illative borsba borsokba
sublative borsra borsokra
allative borshoz borsokhoz
elative borsból borsokból
delative borsról borsokról
ablative borstól borsoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
borsé borsoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
borséi borsokéi
Possessive forms of bors
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. borsom borsaim
2nd person sing. borsod borsaid
3rd person sing. borsa borsai
1st person plural borsunk borsaink
2nd person plural borsotok borsaitok
3rd person plural borsuk borsaik

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Compound words
Expressions

References edit

  1. ^ bors in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • bors in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bors in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
  • Róna-Tas, András ((Can we date this quote?)) “A Hungarian word of Turkic origin coming from India: bors ‘pepper’”, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], archived from the original on 2023-11-04

Icelandic edit

Noun edit

bors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor

Latvian edit

 bors on Latvian Wikipedia

Etymology edit

From the stem of boraks.

Pronunciation edit

(file)

Noun edit

Chemical element
B
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bors m (1st declension)

  1. boron (chemical element, a metalloid, with atomic number 5)
    bora savienojumiboron compounds
    bora mēslojumsboron fertilizers

Declension edit

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Swedish edit

Noun edit

bors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
  2. indefinite genitive plural of bo

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