See also: Boor and bòòr

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch boer (peasant). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (peasant, farmer).

For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant), Polish bydło (cattle, rabble) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple)).

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boor (plural boors)

  1. A peasant.
  2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
  3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
  4. An uncultured person.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 155:
      Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.
    • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 [1]:
      I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.
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Afar

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Etymology

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From French port.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈboːr/ [ˈboːɾ]
  • Hyphenation: boor

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bóor m 

  1. port, harbour

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  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

Afrikaans

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

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boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

  1. drill

Etymology 2

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Chemical element
B
Previous: berillium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

From Dutch boor, from borium.

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boor (uncountable)

  1. boron
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Etymology 3

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From Dutch boren.

Verb

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boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

  1. to drill

Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch bore.

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boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

  1. drill
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  • Afrikaans: boor
  • Aukan: boo
  • Caribbean Hindustani: boro
  • Caribbean Javanese: bur
  • Indonesian: bor
  • Papiamentu: bor, boor
  • Sranan Tongo: boro, boor

Etymology 2

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Chemical element
B
Previous: beryllium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

Dutchification of borium.

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boor n (uncountable)

  1. boron
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Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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boor

  1. inflection of boren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Estonian

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Chemical element
B
Previous: berüllium (Be)
Next: süsinik (C)
 
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Noun

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boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

  1. boron

Declension

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Declension of boor (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative boor boorid
accusative nom.
gen. boori
genitive booride
partitive boori boore
boorisid
illative boori
boorisse
booridesse
booresse
inessive booris boorides
boores
elative boorist booridest
boorest
allative boorile booridele
boorele
adessive booril booridel
boorel
ablative boorilt booridelt
boorelt
translative booriks boorideks
booreks
terminative boorini boorideni
essive boorina booridena
abessive boorita boorideta
comitative booriga booridega

Latin

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Verb

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boor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Middle English

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Noun

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boor

  1. Alternative form of bor

Southwestern Dinka

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Noun

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boor (plural booth)

  1. goat

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  • Dinka-English Dictionary[2], 2005

Swedish

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Noun

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boor

  1. indefinite plural of boa

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English poor, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

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boor

  1. poor
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:
      An a boor lithel breedegroom waithed wonderfullee griefte.
      And the poor dirty bridegroom looked wondrously grieved.

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  • 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