boor

English

Etymology

From Dutch boer (“peasant”).

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: bô, IPA: /bɔː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /bO:(r\)/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• (US) enPR: bôr, IPA: /bɔːɹ/ X-SAMPA: /bO:r\/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːr
• Homophones: boar, bore

Noun

boor (plural boors)

1. A peasant.
2. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
3. A yokel, country bumpkin,
4. An uncultured person

Related terms

• boorish
• boorishly
• boorishness

Translations

a peasant

• Bulgarian: грубиян
• French: rustre (fr)

• Italian: cafone (it) m
• Romanian: țăran (ro) m

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

• Italian: boero (it) m

a yokel

• Greek: αγροίκος (el) (agroíkos) m

• Romanian: țăran (ro) m, bădăran (ro) m, mojic (ro) m

an uncultured person

• French: mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, rustre (fr) m
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) (agroíkos) m
• Portuguese: rústico (pt) m
• Romanian: necioplit (ro) m, incult (ro) m

• Russian: хам (ru) (xam) m, хамка (ru) (xámka) f, грубиян (ru) (grubiján) m, грубиянка (ru) (grubijánka) f
• Volapük: (male or female) grobälan (vo), (male) higrobälan (vo), (female) jigrobälan (vo)

Anagrams

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːr

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Etymology 1

Germanic, cognate with German bohren (“to drill”)

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje)

1. a drill

Derived terms

boorapparaat n booras m and f boorbeitel m boorbuis m and f boorder m booreiland n boorgat n boorhelper m boorkever m boorkop m boorplatform n boren (verb)

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present indicative of boren
2. imperative of boren

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B	Previous: beryllium (Be)
	Next: koolstof (C)

From Latin borium, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium n

Derived terms

• boorwater n
• boorzalf m and f
• boorzuur n

Related terms

• borax n

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Estonian

Chemical element
B	Previous: berüllium (Be)
	Next: süsinik (C)

Noun

Wikipedia ^et

boor (^??? please provide the genitive and partitive!)

1. The metalloid element boron

Declension

This Estonian noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Latin

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

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Swedish

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa