boar

See also: Boar, boâr, bôar, bóar, and -boar

English

Sus scrofa (1)

Etymology

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz (whence also Dutch beer, obsolete dialectal German Bär (“boar”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoydʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas (“terrible apparition”), Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (běsŭ, “demon”)), enlargement of *bʰoydʰ-. More at bad.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/
• enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• enPR: bōr, IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
• IPA^(key): /boə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: bore, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Noun

boar (plural boars or boar)

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

Coordinate terms

• sow

Derived terms

• boar-spear
• herd boar

Translations

wild boar — see wild boar

male pig

• Arabic: خِنْزِير m (ḵinzīr)

  Egyptian Arabic: خنزير m (xanziir)

• Armenian: արու խոզ (aru xoz)
• Belarusian: каба́н m (kabán)
• Bulgarian: шопар (bg) m (šopar)
• Burmese: ဝက်ထီး (my) (wakhti:)
• Catalan: verro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公豬／公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū), 公豬／公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū)

• Czech: kanec (cs) m
• Danish: orne (da), galt (da) (castrated)
• Dutch: beer (nl), mannetjesvarken everzwijn,
• Esperanto: virporko, porkiĉo
• Finnish: karju (fi)
• French: verrat (fr) m
• Friulian: viru
• Galician: cocho (gl) m
• Georgian: ქოსმენი (kosmeni)
• German: Eber (de) m
• Greek: κάπρος (el) m (kápros)
• Hungarian: kan (hu)
• Icelandic: göltur m
• Irish: collach m
• Italian: verro m
• Japanese: 雄ブタ (osubuta), 雄豚 (おすぶた, osubuta)
• Korean: 수퇘지 (ko) (sutwaeji), 멧돼지 (ko) (metdwaeji)
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• Kyrgyz: каба́н m (kabán)
• Latgalian: keiļs m
• Latin: verres
• Latvian: kuilis m
• Lithuanian: kuilys (lt) m
• Low German: Beer (nds) m
• Maori: tāriana, reiputa (if has tusks), poa
• Norman: véthot m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: galte (no) m (castrated), råne (no) m
• Persian: خوک نر (xukê nar)
• Polish: knur (pl) m
• Portuguese: barrão (pt) m, cachaço (pt) m
• Romanian: vier (ro), mascur (ro) (castrated)
• Romansch: ver, verr m, vier m
• Russian: каба́н (ru) m (kabán), хряк (ru) m (xrjak), бо́ров (ru) m (bórov)
• Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
• Scottish Gaelic: torc m
• Sicilian: verru (scn)
• Slovene: merjasec (sl) m
• Spanish: verraco (es) m
• Swedish: galt (sv)
• Tagalog: bulugan
• Telugu: పంది (te) (pandi)
• Ukrainian: каба́н (uk) m (kabán)

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• Old English: ^{(please verify)} bār m, ^{(please verify)} eofor m
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• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} berre m

See also

• hog
• pig
• swine

Anagrams

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Dutch boer

Noun

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

1. (historical) a Boer

Related terms

• afrikandar

See also

• boer (Bokmål)

References

• “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• bouar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou +‎ -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, 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

Etymology

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Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. drill, bore

Further reading

• “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Yola

Noun

boar

1. hedgehog

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)