bora
English
Etymology 1
From Gamilaraay būru.
Alternative forms
Noun
bora (plural boras)
- A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
- 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2:
- Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
- 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14:
- By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
- 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”), from Latin Boreās.
Noun
bora
- A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:
- When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:
Translations
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bora
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bora | — |
accusative | borát | — |
dative | borának | — |
instrumental | borával | — |
causal-final | boráért | — |
translative | borává | — |
terminative | boráig | — |
essive-formal | boraként | — |
essive-modal | borául | — |
inessive | borában | — |
superessive | borán | — |
adessive | boránál | — |
illative | borába | — |
sublative | borára | — |
allative | borához | — |
elative | borából | — |
delative | boráról | — |
ablative | borától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
boráé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
boráéi | — |
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”) (Icelandic bor).
Verb
bora (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative boraði, supine borað)
- (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
Conjugation
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að bora | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
borað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
borandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég bora | við borum | present (nútíð) |
ég bori | við borum |
þú borar | þið borið | þú borir | þið borið | ||
hann, hún, það borar | þeir, þær, þau bora | hann, hún, það bori | þeir, þær, þau bori | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég boraði | við boruðum | past (þátíð) |
ég boraði | við boruðum |
þú boraðir | þið boruðuð | þú boraðir | þið boruðuð | ||
hann, hún, það boraði | þeir, þær, þau boruðu | hann, hún, það boraði | þeir, þær, þau boruðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
bora (þú) | borið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
boraðu | boriði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að borast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
borast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
borandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég borast | við borumst | present (nútíð) |
ég borist | við borumst |
þú borast | þið borist | þú borist | þið borist | ||
hann, hún, það borast | þeir, þær, þau borast | hann, hún, það borist | þeir, þær, þau borist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég boraðist | við boruðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég boraðist | við boruðumst |
þú boraðist | þið boruðust | þú boraðist | þið boruðust | ||
hann, hún, það boraðist | þeir, þær, þau boruðust | hann, hún, það boraðist | þeir, þær, þau boruðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
borast (þú) | borist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
borastu | boristi * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
boraður | boruð | borað | boraðir | boraðar | boruð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
boraðan | boraða | borað | boraða | boraðar | boruð | |
dative (þágufall) |
boruðum | boraðri | boruðu | boruðum | boruðum | boruðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
boraðs | boraðrar | boraðs | boraðra | boraðra | boraðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
boraði | boraða | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
boraða | boruðu | boraða | boruðu | boruðu | boruðu |
Etymology 2
From Old Norse bora, from bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”).
Noun
bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)
Declension
Etymology 3
Noun
Italian
Etymology
Noun
bora f (plural bore)
- bora (north-eastern wind)
Latvian
Noun
bora m
- (deprecated template usage) genitive singular form of bors
Northern Sami
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
bōra
Inflection
Even a-stem, no gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | bōra | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | bōra | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | bōra | bōrat | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | bōra | bōraid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | bōra | bōraid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | bōrii | bōraide | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bōras | bōrain | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | bōrain | bōraiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | bōran | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
bora
- inflection of borrat:
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
bora n
Verb
bora
- inflection of bore:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Noun
bora n or m
Old English
Etymology
From the verb beran.
Pronunciation
Noun
bora m
- bearer (only attested in compounds)
Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Verb
bora
Conjugation
present | past | ||||
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infinitive | bora | — | |||
participle | borandi, -e | boraþer | |||
active voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | borar | bori, -e | — | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
þū | borar | bori, -e | bora | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
han | borar | bori, -e | — | boraþi, -e | boraþi, -e |
vīr | borum, -om | borum, -om | borum, -om | boraþum, -om | boraþum, -om |
īr | borin | borin | borin | boraþin | boraþin |
þēr | bora | borin | — | boraþu, -o | boraþin |
mediopassive voice | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
iæk | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
þū | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
han | boras | boris, -es | — | boraþis, -es | boraþis, -es |
vīr | borums, -oms | borums, -oms | — | boraþums, -oms | boraþums, -oms |
īr | borins | borins | — | boraþins | boraþins |
þēr | boras | borins | — | boraþus, -os | boraþins |
Descendants
- Swedish: borra
Portuguese
Etymology
Short for embora. From the phrase vamos embora.
Interjection
bora
Synonyms
Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
bora
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan) bura
Noun
bora f (plural boras)
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)
Declension
Swahili
Etymology
From Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, “large, great, massive; important; very”).
Adjective
bora (invariable)
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology 1
Noun
bora
Etymology 2
Noun
bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gmq-bot" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., from borr (“drill”) (Westrobothnian Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gmq-bot" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.).
Verb
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