boor

See also: Boor and bòòr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”). Doublet of Boer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bʊə/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• (General American) enPR: bo͝or, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/
  • (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force merger)

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.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale V.ii.155

     Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.

   • 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 :

     I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

Related terms

• boorish
• boorishly
• boorishness

Translations

a peasant

• Bulgarian: селянин (bg) m (seljanin)
• Dutch: boer (nl) m or f
• French: rustre (fr)

• Italian: cafone (it) m, bifolco (it) m, becero (it) m, buzzurro (it) m
• Romanian: țăran (ro) m
• Spanish: huaso (es) m (Chile)
• Turkish: köylü (tr)

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

• Bulgarian: бур m (bur)
• Italian: boero (it) m

• Polish: Bur (pl) m

a yokel

• Czech: buran (cs) m
• French: plouc (fr) m
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)

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

an uncultured person

• Bulgarian: грубиян (bg) m (grubijan)
• Czech: buran (cs) m
• Finnish: jyväjemmari (fi) (derogatory), moukka (fi)
• French: beauf (fr) m, mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, plouc (fr) m, rustre (fr) m
• Galician: pailán, pailaroco, paifoco (gl), paiolo (gl), paduán (gl), badoco
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
• Irish: abhlóir m, amhlán m
• Italian: cafone (it) m
• Latin: rupex m

• Persian: ارنئوت‎ (arnaut)
• Polish: prostak (pl) m, cham (pl) m
• Portuguese: rústico (pt) m
• Romanian: necioplit (ro) m, incult (ro) m
• Russian: хам (ru) m (xam), ха́мка (ru) f (xámka), грубия́н (ru) m (grubiján), грубия́нка (ru) f (grubijánka)
• Spanish: patán (es) m, cateto (es) m, paleto m
• Swedish: tölp (sv) c, bonnläpp c
• Turkish: hödük (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

• -boro, Boro, OBOR, boro, boro-, broo, robo-

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Afar

Etymology

From French port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːɾ/

Noun

bóor m

1. port, harbour

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊər/

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Etymology 1

From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill

Etymology 2

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

From Dutch boor, from borium

Noun

boor (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Etymology 3

From Dutch boren

Verb

boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

1. to drill

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːr/

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• Hyphenation: boor
• Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

1. drill

Derived terms

• boorder
• boren
• boorapparaat
• booras
• boorbeitel
• boorbuis
• booreiland
• boorgat
• boorhelper
• boorkever
• boorkop
• boorplatform

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boor
• → Indonesian: bor

Etymology 2

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

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

1. boron

Synonyms

• borium

Derived terms

• boorwater
• boorzalf
• boorzuur

Related terms

• borax

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boor

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

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Estonian

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

Noun

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

1. boron

Declension

Declension of boor (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	boor	boorid
genitive	boori	booride
partitive	boori	boore / boorisid
illative	boori / boorisse	booridesse
inessive	booris	boorides
elative	boorist	booridest
allative	boorile	booridele
adessive	booril	booridel
ablative	boorilt	booridelt
translative	booriks	boorideks
terminative	boorini	boorideni
essive	boorina	booridena
abessive	boorita	boorideta
comitative	booriga	booridega

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Latin

Verb

boor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

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Middle English

Noun

boor

1. Alternative form of bor

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Swedish

Noun

boor

1. indefinite plural of boa

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Yola

Etymology

From Middle English povre.

Adjective

boor

1. poor

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, →ISBN