bora

From Gamilaraay būru.

• Bora

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...

• burbung

• bora ground

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

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?

• Abor, Baro, baro-, boar, broa

bor +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

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

bora

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːra/
• Rhymes: -ɔːra

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

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

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

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

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)

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

bora m

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

Ultimately from Latin borea.

bora f (plural bore)

1. bora (north-eastern wind)

bora m

1. genitive singular form of bors

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpoːra/

bōra

1. boron

• Entry 83735 in Álgu database

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpora/

bora

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

• (of bor) borene n or m (Etymology 2)
• (of bore) boret

bora n

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

bora

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

• borane

bora n or m

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

From the verb beran.

bora m

1. bearer (only attested in compounds)

• bura

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

bora

1. to drill, penetrate

• Swedish: borra

Short for embora. From the phrase vamos embora.

bora

1. let's go

   Bora lá! ― Let's go there!

2. let's

   Bora comer! ― Let's eat!

• vamos, vamos lá, vamo, vamo lá, vambora

• (Sutsilvan) bura

bora f (plural boras)

1. (sports, Surmiran) ball

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

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)

1. wrinkle
2. (geology) fold

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

bora (invariable)

1. fine, excellent

bora

1. dative singular of bor

bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)

1. (meteorology) squall

• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /ˈbura/
• (Skellefteå) IPA^(key): /²boːra/
• (Umeå) IPA^(key): /²bɞːra/

  Rhymes: -ʊ̀ra

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -ʊ̀ra, -ʊ̀ða

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

bora (preterite & supine bora)

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