بورا
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Khalaj[edit]
Adverb[edit]
بوْرا (bôra)
Declension[edit]
Declension of بورا
Malay[edit]
Verb[edit]
بورا
Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), whence بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”). Cognate with Bashkir буран (buran), Crimean Tatar boran, Kazakh боран (boran) and Turkmen boran. Alternatively, it could be a wanderwort related to Italian bora and Greek μπόρα (bóra).
Alternative forms[edit]
- بوره (bora)
Noun[edit]
بورا • (bora)
- squall, tempest, a storm with severe winds
- Synonym: فورطنه (furtuna, fırtına)
- (figuratively) tremendous scolding, flood of vituperation
Derived terms[edit]
- بورا پاتلامق (bora patlamak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)
- بوراچیقمق (bora çıkmak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)
Related terms[edit]
- بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: bora
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) պօռա (pōṙa)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
بورا • (bura)
- this place, here
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: bura
Further reading[edit]
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bora2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 651
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “bora”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 57b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bora”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393