boor

English

Etymology

From Dutch boer (“peasant”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bŏŏr, IPA^(key): /bʊə(ɹ)/, enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /bɔː(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: bŏŏr, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/, enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(r), -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: boer, 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 (bg) (grubijan)
• French: rustre (fr)

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

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

• Italian: boero m

a yokel

• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)

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

an uncultured person

• French: mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, rustre (fr) m
• Galician: pailán, pailaroco, paifoco, paiolo (gl), paduán (gl), badoco
• Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
• Portuguese: rústico (pt) m

• Romanian: necioplit (ro) m, incult (ro) m
• Russian: хам (ru) m (xam), хамка (ru) f (xámka), грубиян (ru) m (grubiján), грубиянка (ru) f (grubijánka)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

Anagrams

• boro

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Afrikaans

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

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

1. drill
2. (uncountable) boron

Synonyms

• (chemical element): borium
• (chemical element): boron

Verb

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

1. to drill

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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 n)

1. a drill

Derived terms

boorapparaat n booras m, f boorbeitel m boorbuis m, 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, 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 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