bora

See also: Bora, bóra, böra, borā, bora-, and Borá

English

Etymology 1

From Gamilaraay būru.

Alternative forms

Noun

bora (plural boras)

  1. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
    • 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2:
      Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
    • 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14:
      By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
Synonyms
  • burbung
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea (north wind), from Latin Boreās.

Noun

bora

  1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:
      When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?
Translations

Anagrams


Hungarian

Etymology

bor + -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈborɒ]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ra

Noun

bora

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of bor

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative bora
accusative borát
dative borának
instrumental borával
causal-final boráért
translative borává
terminative boráig
essive-formal boraként
essive-modal borául
inessive borában
superessive borán
adessive boránál
illative borába
sublative borára
allative borához
elative borából
delative boráról
ablative borától

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔːra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bora (to drill), from borr (drill) (Icelandic bor).

Verb

bora (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative boraði, supine borað)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bora, from bora (to drill), from borr (drill).

Noun

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)

  1. hole (small and undesirable abode)
  2. butthole (anus)
Declension

Noun

bora m

  1. indefinite accusative plural of bor
  2. indefinite genitive plural of bor

Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin borea.

Noun

bora f (plural bore)

  1. bora (north-eastern wind)

Latvian

Noun

bora m

  1. genitive singular form of bors

Northern Sami

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpoːra/

Noun

bōra

  1. boron
Inflection
Even a-stem, no gradation
Nominative bōra
Genitive bōra
Singular Plural
Nominative bōra bōrat
Accusative bōra bōraid
Genitive bōra bōraid
Illative bōrii bōraide
Locative bōras bōrain
Comitative bōrain bōraiguin
Essive bōran
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person bōran bōrame bōramet
2nd person bōrat bōrade bōradet
3rd person bōras bōraska bōraset
Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpora/

Verb

bora

  1. inflection of borrat:
    1. present indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. imperative connegative

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

bora n

  1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Verb

bora

  1. simple past of bore
  2. past participle of bore

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

bora n or m

  1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Old English

Etymology

From the verb beran.

Noun

bora m

  1. bearer (only attested in compounds)

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.

Verb

bora

  1. to drill, penetrate

Conjugation

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology

Short for embora. From the phrase vamos embora.

Interjection

bora

  1. let's go
    Bora lá!Let's go there!
  2. let's
    Bora comer!Let's eat!

Synonyms


Romansch

Alternative forms

Noun

bora f (plural boras)

  1. (sports, Surmiran) ball

Synonyms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)

  1. wrinkle
  2. (geology) fold

Declension


Swahili

Etymology

From Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, large, great, massive; important; very).

Adjective

bora (invariable)

  1. fine, excellent

Turkish

Noun

bora

  1. dative singular of bor

Noun

bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)

  1. (meteorology) squall

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Old Norse bora (to drill), from borr (drill) (Westrobothnian bor).

Verb

bora (preterite & supine bora)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
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