border

See also: Border and börder

English

Etymology

Middle English bordure, from Old French bordure, bordeure, from border (“to border”), from bort, bord (“a border”), of Germanic origin akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). More at board.

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /bɔədə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːdə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɔɹdəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
• Homophone: boarder

Noun

border (plural borders)

1. The outer edge of something.

   the borders of the garden

   • Bentham

     upon the borders of these solitudes

   • Barrow

     in the borders of death

2. A decorative strip around the edge of something.

   There's a nice frilly border around the picture frame.

   a solid border around a table of figures

3. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
4. The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
   • 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)

     The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

   The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.

5. (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.

Derived terms

Terms derived from border

• borderland
• borderlinking

• borderspace

• borderspacing

• cross-border

Translations

the outer edge of something

• Arabic: حَدّ‏‎ (ar) m (ḥadd), حُدُود‏‎ m pl (ḥudūd)
• Armenian: սահման (hy) (sahman), եզր (hy) (ezr)
• Asturian: frontera f
• Belarusian: мяжа́ f (mjažá)
• Bulgarian: край (bg) m (kraj), ръб (bg) m (rǎb)
• Catalan: vora (ca) f, orla (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊界 (zh), 边界 (zh) (biānjiè), 境 (zh) (jìng)

• Czech: okraj (cs) m
• Dutch: rand (nl) m
• Estonian: raam (et)
• Finnish: reuna (fi), reunus
• French: bord (fr) m, bordure (fr) f
• Galician: bordo (gl) m
• German: Rand (de) m
• Hebrew: גבול‏‎ (he) m (gvul)
• Irish: ciumhais f
• Italian: confine (it) m
• Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai)

• Kurdish: sînor‏‎ (ku), tixûb‏‎ (ku)
• Kyrgyz: чек ара (ky) f (çek ara), чет (ky) m (çet), бордюр (ky) f (bordyur)
• Latgalian: rūbežs m
• Latin: finis (la)
• Latvian: robeža (lv) f
• Macedonian: граница f (granica), раб m (rab)
• Maori: pakitaha (of garment)
• Norman: bordeuse f
• Norwegian: ytterkant m, kant (no) m, rand (no) m
• Occitan: bòrd m, vòra f
• Portuguese: borda (pt) f, margem (pt) f
• Romanian: bordură (ro) f, margine (ro) f, graniță (ro) f, frontieră (ro) f, cant (ro) n
• Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), край (ru) m (kraj), кро́мка (ru) f (krómka)
• Scottish Gaelic: iomall m, oir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: граница f

  Roman: granica (sh) f

• Spanish: borde (es) m
• Turkish: kenar (tr)

a decorative strip around the edge of something

• Catalan: orla (ca) f, sanefa f
• Czech: lem (cs) m
• Estonian: raam (et)
• Finnish: boordi (fi), reunus, koristereunus
• French: bordure (fr)
• German: Rand (de) m
• Greek: περίγυρος (el) m (perígyros)
• Irish: ciumhais f
• Italian: orlo (it)

• Norwegian: bord (no) m
• Persian: حاشیه‏‎ (fa) (hâšiye)
• Portuguese: orla (pt) f
• Russian: кайма́ (ru) f (kajmá) of clothes, бордю́р (ru) m (bordjúr) of a road or oavement, фриз (ru) m (friz) of a building
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: граничник m

  Roman: graničnik (sh) m

• Spanish: cenefa (es) f, orla (es) f
• Turkish: süs (tr)

a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown

• Czech: záhon m
• Dutch: border (nl) m
• Finnish: kukkapenkki (fi)
• German: Beet (de) n, Streifen (de) n
• Greek: παρτέρι (el) n (partéri)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: граничник m

  Roman: graničnik (sh) m

• Spanish: parterre m

the line or frontier area separating regions

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: grens
• Albanian: kufi (sq) m
• Arabic: حَدّ‏‎ (ar) m (ḥadd), حُدُود‏‎ n pl (ḥudūd) (normally used in the plural)
• Aragonese: muga f
• Armenian: սահման (hy) (sahman)
• Asturian: frontera f
• Azeri: hüdud (az), sərhəd (az)
• Belarusian: мяжа́ f (mjažá), грані́ца f (hraníca)
• Bengali: সীমানা (simana)
• Bulgarian: грани́ца (bg) f (graníca)
• Burmese: နယ်စပ် (my) (naicap)
• Catalan: frontera f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國境 (zh), 国境 (zh) (guójìng), 邊界 (zh), 边界 (zh) (biānjiè), 邊境 (zh), 边境 (zh) (biānjìng), 疆界 (zh) (jiāngjiè)

• Czech: hranice (cs) f
• Danish: grænse (da) c
• Dutch: grens (nl) f
• Esperanto: landlimo
• Estonian: piir
• Faroese: mark (fo) n
• Finnish: raja (fi)
• French: frontière (fr) f
• Georgian: საზღვარი (sazɣvari)
• German: Grenze (de) f
• Greek: σύνορα (el) n pl (sýnora)
• Hebrew: גְּבוּל‏‎ (he) m (g'vúl)
• Hindi: सीमा (hi) f (sīmā), सरहद (hi) m (sarhad)
• Hungarian: határ (hu)
• Icelandic: landamæri (is)
• Indonesian: perbatasan (id)
• Irish: teorainn f
• Istriot: confeîn
• Italian: confine (it) m, frontiera (it) f
• Japanese: 国境 (ja) (くにざかい, kunizakai; こっきょう, kokkyō), 地境 (じざかい, jizakai)
• Kazakh: шекара (kk) (şekara), шек (şek)
• Khmer: ព្រំដែន (prum daen), ជាយដែន (ciey daen)
• Korean: 국경 (ko) (gukgyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سنوور‏‎ (sinûr)

• Kyrgyz: чек ара (ky) (çek ara), чек (ky) (çek)
• Ladin: cunfin
• Lao: ຊາຍແດນ (lo) (sāi dǣn)
• Latin: finis (la)

• Latvian: robeža (lv) f
• Lithuanian: siena (lt) f
• Macedonian: граница f (granica)
• Malagasy: amborodao (mg)
• Malay: sempadan (ms)
• Maltese: fruntiera f
• Maori: aukati
• Middle High German: gemerke n
• Mongolian: хил хязгаар (hil hjazgaar)
• Ngazidja Comorian: muyano class 3/4
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grense (no) m, f, landegrense m, f

  Nynorsk: grense f, landegrense f

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مرز‏‎ (fa) (marz), سرحد‏‎ (fa) (sarhad), حد‏‎ (fa) (had)
• Polish: granica (pl) f
• Portuguese: fronteira (pt) f, raia (pt) f
• Romanian: graniță (ro) f, frontieră (ro) f
• Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), рубе́ж (ru) m (rubéž), межа́ (ru) f (mežá), кордо́н (ru) m (kordón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: граница f

  Roman: granica (sh) f

• Sinhalese: අද්දර (addara)
• Slovak: hranica f
• Slovene: meja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: granica f

  Upper Sorbian: mjeza f, hranica f

• Spanish: frontera (es) f
• Swahili: mpaka (sw)
• Swedish: gräns (sv) c
• Tajik: сарҳад (sarhad), ҳудуд (tg) (hudud)
• Tatar: чикләре pl (çikläre), чик (tt) (çik)
• Thai: ชายแดน (th) (chaai-dɛɛn)
• Tibetan: ས་མཚམས (sa mtshams)
• Turkish: hudut (tr), sınır (tr)
• Turkmen: serhet, araçäk (tk), çet, çäk
• Tuvan: даштыкы (daštıkı)
• Ukrainian: кордо́н (uk) m (kordón), грани́ця f (hranýcja)
• Urdu: سيما‏‎ f (sīmā), سرحد‏‎ m (sarhad)
• Uyghur: چېگرا‏‎ (chëgra), چەت‏‎ (chet)
• Uzbek: chegara (uz), hudud (uz)
• Vietnamese: biên giới (vi)
• Vilamovian: graonc f
• Yiddish: גרענעץ‏‎ m, f (grenets)

Verb

border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered)

1. (transitive) To put a border on something.
2. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to a border.

   Denmark borders Germany to the south.

3. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).

   Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

4. (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
   • Archbishop Tillotson

     Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

Derived terms

• border on
• cross-border

Translations

(transitive) to put a border on something

• Czech: ohraničit pf, ohraničovat impf, olemovat pf
• Danish: begrænse (da)
• Dutch: begrenzen (nl)
• Estonian: piiritlema
• Finnish: rajata (fi), rajoittaa (fi)
• French: délimiter (fr)
• German: begrenzen (de)

• Ido: bordizar (io)
• Macedonian: ограничува (ograničuva), ограничи (ograniči)
• Maori: pae
• Portuguese: orlar
• Russian: ограни́чивать (ru) impf (ograníčivatʹ), ограни́чить (ru) pf (ograníčitʹ)
• Swedish: gränsa till
• Turkish: sınırlamak (tr)

(transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border

• Bulgarian: гранича (bg) (graniča)
• Catalan: vorejar (ca)
• Czech: hraničit (cs)
• Danish: grænse (da)
• Dutch: grenzen aan
• Finnish: rajautua, rajoittua
• French: border (fr)

• German: angrenzen (de), säumen (de)
• Macedonian: граничи (graniči)
• Polish: graniczyć (pl)
• Portuguese: fazer fronteira com
• Russian: грани́чить (ru) impf (graníčitʹ)
• Swedish: gränsa till
• Turkish: sınırdaş olmak

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} להגביל‏‎ (le'hagbyl) (1), ^{(please verify)} להגבל‏‎ (le'higavel) (2)

• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} അതിര്‍ത്തി (atir‍tti) (athirthi)

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French

Etymology

bord +‎ -er, of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

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Verb

border

1. to border (add a border to)
2. to border (share a border with)

Conjugation

  Conjugation of border (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		border			avoir bordé
gerund		en bordant			en ayant bordé
present participle		bordant /bɔʁ.dɑ̃/
past participle		bordé /bɔʁ.de/
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	borde /bɔʁd/	bordes /bɔʁd/	borde /bɔʁd/	bordons /bɔʁ.dɔ̃/	bordez /bɔʁ.de/	bordent /bɔʁd/
	imperfect	bordais /bɔʁ.dɛ/	bordais /bɔʁ.dɛ/	bordait /bɔʁ.dɛ/	bordions /bɔʁ.djɔ̃/	bordiez /bɔʁ.dje/	bordaient /bɔʁ.dɛ/
	past historic1	bordai /bɔʁ.de/	bordas /bɔʁ.da/	borda /bɔʁ.da/	bordâmes /bɔʁ.dam/	bordâtes /bɔʁ.dat/	bordèrent /bɔʁ.dɛʁ/
	future	borderai /bɔʁ.də.ʁe/	borderas /bɔʁ.də.ʁa/	bordera /bɔʁ.də.ʁa/	borderons /bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/	borderez /bɔʁ.də.ʁe/	borderont /bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	borderais /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	borderais /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	borderait /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/	borderions /bɔʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/	borderiez /bɔʁ.də.ʁje/	borderaient /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	borde /bɔʁd/	bordes /bɔʁd/	borde /bɔʁd/	bordions /bɔʁ.djɔ̃/	bordiez /bɔʁ.dje/	bordent /bɔʁd/
	imperfect1	bordasse /bɔʁ.das/	bordasses /bɔʁ.das/	bordât /bɔʁ.da/	bordassions /bɔʁ.da.sjɔ̃/	bordassiez /bɔʁ.da.sje/	bordassent /bɔʁ.das/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	borde /bɔʁd/	—	bordons /bɔʁ.dɔ̃/	bordez /bɔʁ.de/	—
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Further reading

• “border” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• broder
• rebord

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• bord

Noun

border n

1. indefinite plural of bord

Etymology 2

Noun

border m

1. indefinite plural of bord