boer

See also: Boer, bóer, bôer, bör, bœr, and -boer

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bur/

Etymology 1

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From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

1. farmer; peasant
2. (chess) pawn; least valuable piece in chess

   Synonym: pion

Etymology 2

From Dutch boeren.

Verb

boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer)

1. to farm
2. to continuously encounter someone at a specific place

   Hy boer daar by haar huis.

   He is always there at her house.

3. to stay; to sojourn; to linger

   Hy't die heel middag by daardie meisie geboer.

   He stayed over at that girl['s place] the whole afternoon.

   Moenie op 'n vraag boer nie.

   Don't linger on a question.

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːər/, [ˈb̥oːˀɐ]

Etymology 1

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From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

1. Boer

Inflection

Declension of boer

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	boer	boeren	boere	boerne
genitive	boers	boerens	boeres	boernes

Further reading

• boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

boer

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of bo

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

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• Hyphenation: boer
• Rhymes: -ur

Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -ū- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English būr, ġebūr (whence English bower) and Old High German būr (whence German Bauer).

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin)

1. (male) farmer, peasant

   Synonym: bouwman

   Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder

2. (in compounds) merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
3. boor, yokel, ruffian
4. jack (playing card)

Alternative forms

• bouwer

Derived terms

• aardappelboer
• Boer
• boerachtig
• boerderij
• boeren
• boerenbedrieger
• boerenbedrog
• boerenbond
• boerenbrood
• boerendeur
• boerenfluit
• boerenjongen
• boerenkaas
• boerenkinkel
• boerenknecht
• boerenkool
• boerenland
• boerenlatijn
• boerenmarkt
• boerenomelet
• boerenplaats
• boerenpummel
• boerenslimheid
• boerenstand
• boerenstiel
• boerenworst
• boerenzoon
• boerenzwaluw
• groenteboer
• hartenboer
• keuterboer
• klaverboer
• melkboer
• platenboer
• ruitenboer
• schoppenboer
• veeboer
• visboer
• voddenboer

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boer
• → Sranan Tongo: buru

Etymology 2

Originally onomatopoetic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen.

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

1. A belch, a burp.

Derived terms

• boeren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boer

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of boeren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of boeren

Anagrams

• bore
• ober

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.er/, [ˈboɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbo.er/, [ˈbɔːer]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) boer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of boō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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From Dutch boer

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne)

1. (historical) a Boer

Related terms

• afrikander

See also

• boar (Nynorsk)

References

• “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.