boar
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA(key): /bɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA(key): /bɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /boə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: bore, Bohr; boor (pour–poor merger)
Noun
editboar (plural boars or boar)
- A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
- A male pig.
- A male boar (sense 1).
- A male bear.
- A male guinea pig.
Coordinate terms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editwild boar — see wild boar
male pig
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See also
editAnagrams
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editboar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)
- (historical) a Boer
Related terms
editSee also
edit- boer (Bokmål)
References
edit- “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou + -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.
Noun
editboar m (plural boari)
Declension
editDeclension of boar
Related terms
editSee also
editWest Frisian
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
editboar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)
Further reading
edit- “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboar
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27
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