Ottoman Turkish

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Noun

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بوره (bora)

  1. Alternative spelling of بورا (bora, storm, squall, tempest)

Pashto

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Etymology 1

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بوره

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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بوره (buráf

  1. sawdust
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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بوره (buraf

  1. woman who has lost a son
  2. ewe which has lost her lamb
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Persian

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Etymology

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بوره یا بوراکس

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwlk' /⁠*bōrag⁠/), a term merely suffixed from the adjective [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/) becoming modern بور (bur, red, bay; blond) by reason that borax, traded as tincal in its crude state and of but scarce natural deposits, before the modern production by means of induced chemical reaction, was obtained by dint of evaporation from certain lagoons in which it was dissolved with impurities.

For the formation of the Middle Iranian term compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (*bwlyk' /⁠bōrīg⁠/) behind بوری (buri, blond), and for its presence Old Armenian բորակ (borak), բարակ (barak), Georgian ბორაკი (boraḳi), Classical Syriac ܒܽܘܪܟܳܐ (burkā), ܒܘܿܪܩܵܐ (bōrqā), Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq).

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Readings
Classical reading? bōra
Dari reading? bōra
Iranian reading? bure
Tajik reading? büra

Noun

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Dari بوراکس
Iranian Persian بوره
Tajik борак

بوره (bure)

  1. borax

Descendants

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  • Georgian: ბორა (bora)
  • Russian: бура́ (burá)

Noun

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Dari بوره, شکر
Iranian Persian شکر
Tajik шакар

بوره (bōra) (Dari)

  1. sugar

Further reading

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  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “բորակ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 475ab
  • Ciancaglini, Claudia A. (2008) Iranian loanwords in Syriac (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 28), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, page 123
  • Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, page 122