بوری

See also: بوري, تورى, توري, and ثوري

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [boː.ɾiː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [boː.ɾiː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [boː.ɾiː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [boː.ɾiː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bu.ɾi]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buː.ɹiː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɵ.ɾi]

Readings
Classical reading?	bōrī
Dari reading?	bōrī
Iranian reading?	buri
Tajik reading?	büri

Etymology 1

From a putative Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (*bwlyk' /⁠bōrīg⁠/) suffixed from [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/) becoming modern بور (bur, “red, bay; blond”) – compare Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (bwlk' /⁠*bōrag⁠/) reflected in modern بوره (bure, “borax”).

Adjective

بوری • (buri)

1. blond

Descendants

• → Georgian: ბური (buri) — Fereydan

Etymology 2

This word is native in Ottoman Turkish بورو (boru) and Azerbaijani boru.

Alternative forms

• بورو (buru)

Noun

بوری • (buri)

1. trumpet; hunting horn
2. point (especially of a nail)

Descendants

• →? Thai: บุหรี่ (bù-rìi)

Etymology 3

Looks like an Aramaic borrowing of the same word that we describe under Arabic بُرْدِيّ (burdiyy). The existence of “buri mats” in the Philippines from the buri palm (Tagalog burí) must be a coincidence, unless the naming can be supposed to have been imported in a similar fashion as the name of the fibre-offering abaca plant from Arabic أَبَق (ʔabaq).

Alternative forms

• بوریه (buriya), بوریه (buriye)

Noun

بوری • (buri)

1. split reed; marsh reed
2. a mat made of such reed

   Synonyms: حصیر (hasir), زیرانداز (zir-andâz)

Descendants

• → Arabic: بُورِيّ (būriyy, “reed mat”) (hardly found)

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “بوری”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 171b, for the Arabic “reed mat”
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “بوری”, in New Persian–English dictionary, volume 1, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim, page 289
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بورى”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 206

volume=14 Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Stilo, Donald (1982, 2012) “Isfahan xxi. PROVINCIAL DIALECTS”, in Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, New York, for the Georgian “blond”

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بوری”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 275