boar

English

Sus scrofa (1)

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *baizaz (compare Dutch beer, dialectal German 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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bôr, IPA: /bɔːɹ/, X-SAMPA: /bO:r\/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: boor, bore

Noun

boar (plural boars)

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

Coordinate terms

• sow

Translations

male pig

• Armenian: արու խոզ (hy) (aru xoz)
• Belarusian: кабан (be) (kabán) m
• Bulgarian: шопар (bg) (šopar) m
• Catalan: verro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公豬 (cmn), 公豬 (cmn) (gōngzhū)

• Czech: kanec (cs) m
• Danish: orne (da), galt (da) (castrated)
• Dutch: beer (nl) m, var (nl) m
• Esperanto: virporko (eo), porkiĉo (eo)
• Finnish: karju (fi)
• French: verrat (fr) m
• Georgian: ქოსმენი (ka) (kosmeni)
• German: Eber (de) m
• Greek: κάπρος (el) (kápros) m
• Icelandic: göltur (is) m
• Irish: collach (ga) m
• Italian: verro (it) m
• Japanese: 雄ブタ (ja) (osubuta), 雄豚 (ja) (おすぶた, osubuta)

• Jèrriais: véthot m
• Korean: 수퇘지 (ko) (sutwaeji), 멧돼지 (ko)
• Latgalian: keiļs m
• Latin: verres (la)
• Latvian: kuilis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kuilys (lt) m
• Norwegian: galte (no) m (castrated), råne (no) m
• Persian: خوک نر (fa) (xukê nar)
• Polish: knur (pl) m
• Portuguese: barrão (pt) m, cachaço (pt) m
• Romanian: vier (ro), mascur (ro) (castrated)
• Russian: кабан (ru) (kabán) m, хряк (ru) (xrjak) m, боров (ru) (bórov) m
• Scottish Gaelic: torc (gd) m
• Slovene: merjasec (sl) m
• Spanish: verraco (es) m
• Swedish: galt (sv)
• Telugu: పంది (te) (paMdi)
• Ukrainian: кабан (uk) (kabán) m

wild boar — see wild boar

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Translations to be checked

• Old English: bār m, eofor m
• Sardinian: berre m

Derived terms

• boar-spear
• herd boar

See also

• hog
• pig
• swine

Anagrams

• bora

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. Boer

Related terms

• boer (Bokmål)

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• bouar

Etymology

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

Noun

boar m (plural boari)

1. cowherd

Related terms

• bou

See also

• văcar

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West Frisian

Noun

boar c

1. drill, bore