بورا

Khalaj

Adverb

بوْرا (bôra)

1. Arabic spelling of bôra (“here”)

Declension

Declension of بورا

	singular
nominative	بورا
genitive	بودایݧ
dative	بورا, بوراقا
definite accusative	بودایݧ
locative	بودا, بورچا
ablative	بوردا

Malay

Verb

بورا

1. Jawi spelling of bura

Ottoman Turkish

بورا

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), whence بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”). Cognate with Bashkir буран (buran), Crimean Tatar boran, Kazakh боран (boran) and Turkmen boran. Alternatively, it could be a wanderwort related to Italian bora and Greek μπόρα (bóra).

Alternative forms

• بوره (bora)

Noun

بورا • (bora)

1. squall, tempest, a storm with severe winds

   Synonym: فورطنه (furtuna, fırtına)

2. (figuratively) tremendous scolding, flood of vituperation

Derived terms

• بورا پاتلامق (bora patlamak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)
• بوراچیقمق (bora çıkmak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)

 

Related terms

• بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”)

Descendants

• Turkish: bora
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պօռա (pōṙa)

Etymology 2

Noun

بورا • (bura)

1. this place, here

Descendants

• Turkish: bura

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bora2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 651
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “bora”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 57b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bora”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393