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.
Synonyms
  • burbung

Quotations

  • 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...

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
borast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að borast
supine
(sagnbót)		 borast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 borandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég borast við borumst present
(nútíð)		 ég borist við borumst
þú borast þið borist þú borist þið borist
hann, hún, það borast þeir, þær, þau borast hann, hún, það borist þeir, þær, þau borist
past
(þátíð)		 ég boraðist við boruðumst past
(þátíð)		 ég boraðist við boruðumst
þú boraðist þið boruðust þú boraðist þið boruðust
hann, hún, það boraðist þeir, þær, þau boruðust hann, hún, það boraðist þeir, þær, þau boruðust
imperative
(boðháttur)		 borast (þú) borist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
borastu boristi *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

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

Etymology 3

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

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, 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

Adjective

bora (invariable)

  1. fine, excellent

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

bora

  1. dative singular of bor

Etymology 2

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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