boar
English
Etymology
From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz (whence also Dutch beer, obsolete dialectal German Bär (“boar”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas (“terrible apparition”), Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (běsŭ, “demon”)), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.
Pronunciation
- (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
boar (plural boars or boar)
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
wild boar — see wild boar
male pig
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)
- (historical) a Boer
Related terms
See also
- boer (Bokmål)
Romanian
Alternative forms
- bouar
Etymology
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.
Related terms
West Frisian
Yola
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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