boar
English edit
Etymology edit
From 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 (accents with the pour–poor merger)
Noun edit
boar (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 edit
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Translations edit
wild boar — see wild boar
male pig
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)
- (historical) a Boer
Related terms edit
See also edit
- boer (Bokmål)
References edit
- “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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 edit
boar m (plural boari)
Declension edit
Declension of boar
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West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)
Further reading edit
- “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boar
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