بور

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See also: ثور, توژ, پور, پوز, بوز, and تور

Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From the root ب و ر (b-w-r); compare بَارَ (bāra, to lie fallow).

Adjective[edit]

بُور (būr)

  1. fallow, uncultivated
  2. stagnant, waste-
Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

بَوَّرَ (bawwara) II, non-past يُبَوِّرُ‎ (yubawwiru)

  1. to let lie fallow, to leave uncultivated, to leave unsown
  2. to make unprofitable, to make useless
Conjugation[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

بَوْر (bawrm

  1. verbal noun of بَارَ (bāra) (form I)
Declension[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

بُور (būr?

  1. Bor (a city in South Sudan)

Khalaj[edit]

Adjective[edit]

بور (bûor)

  1. Arabic spelling of bûor (nut-brown)

Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Arabic بُور (būr).

Adjective[edit]

بور (bur)

  1. (of land) unfit for cultivation; waste-
  2. useless

Etymology 2[edit]

From Persian بور.

Adjective[edit]

بور (bur)

  1. roan

Etymology 3[edit]

From French bore.

Noun[edit]

بور (bor)

  1. boron

References[edit]

Persian[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/, reddish-brown, bay [horse]). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, yellow), Northern Kurdish bor (grey) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, hyena). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (brown).

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Readings
Classical reading? bōr
Dari reading? bōr
Iranian reading? bur
Tajik reading? bür

Adjective[edit]

Dari بور
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯр

بور (bur)

  1. fair, blonde
  2. reddish brown, bay
  3. (dialectal) brown
Descendants[edit]
  • Khalaj: bûor

See also[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From French.

Noun[edit]

بور (bor)

  1. boron

Urdu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bore.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

بور (bor) (Hindi spelling बोर)

  1. bored

Ushojo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Urdu بور (bōr).

Adjective[edit]

بور (bōr) (noun)

  1. suffering from boredom

Uyghur[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Chagatai بور (bor), from Proto-Turkic *bōr.[1] Cognates with Bashkir бур (bur), Kazakh бор (bor), Tatar акбур (aqbur), aqbur, Uzbek boʻr.

Noun[edit]

بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. chalk
    Synonym: ئاقبور (aqbor)

Etymology 2[edit]

Chemical element
B
Previous: بېرىللىي (bërilliy) (Be)
Next: كاربون (karbon) (C)

From Russian бор (bor).

Noun[edit]

بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. (chemistry) boron

References[edit]

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bōr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading[edit]

  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN