boar

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Sus scrofa (1)
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Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *baizaz (compare Dutch beer, German dialect Bär), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas 'terrible apparition', Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (bĕsĭ) 'demon'), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.

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boar (plural boars)

  1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
  2. A male pig.

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boar m. (definite singular boaren; indefinite plural boarar; definite plural boarane)

  1. Boer

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From Vulgar Latin bovārius or boārius, from Latin bōs. Compare French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.

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boar m. (plural boari)

  1. cowherd

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boar c.

  1. drill, bore
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