# بور
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ب و ر (b w r)
* 2 terms
Compare بَارَ (bāra, “to lie fallow”).

#### Adjective

بُور • (būr)
* fallow, uncultivated
* stagnant, waste-

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

بَوَّرَ • (bawwara) II (non-past يُبَوِّرُ (yubawwiru), verbal noun تَبْوِير (tabwīr))
* to let lie fallow, to leave uncultivated, to leave unsown
* to make unprofitable, to make useless

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

بَوْر • (bawr) m
* verbal noun of بَارَ (bāra) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 4
#### Proper noun

بُور • (būr) ?
* Bor (a city in South Sudan)

### Etymology 5

From French port.

#### Noun

بُور • (būr)
* Synonym of مَرْفَأ (marfaʔ, “port, harbor”) used only in place names

##### Derived terms

* بُورْسَعِيد (būrsaʕīd, “Port Said”)
* بُور سُودَان (būr sūdān, “Port Sudan”)

## Khalaj
### Adjective

بور (bûor)
* Arabic spelling of bûor (“nut-brown”)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Arabic بُور (būr).

#### Adjective

بور • (bur)
* (of land) unfit for cultivation; waste-
* useless

### Etymology 2

From Persian بور.

#### Adjective

بور • (bur)
* roan

### Etymology 3

From French bore.

#### Noun

بور • (bor)
* boron

### References

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/, “reddish-brown, bay [horse]”). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, “yellow”), Northern Kurdish bor (“grey”) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, “hyena”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [boːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [boːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [boːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [bʊːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [buːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [bɵɾ]

#### Adjective

| Dari | بور |
| Iranian Persian | بور |
| Tajik | бӯр |
بور • (bur)
* fair, blonde
* reddish brown, bay
* (dialectal) brown

##### Descendants

* → Khalaj: bûor

#### See also

Colors in Persian · رَنْگ‌هَا (rang-hâ) (layout · text) :
| سِفید (sefid) | خَاکِسْتَری (xâkestari), توسی (tusi) | سِیَاه (siyâh), مِشْکی (meški) |
| سُرْخ (sorx), قِرْمِز (ğermez); زِرِشْکی (zereški) | نَارِنْجی (nârenji); قَهْوِه‌ای (ğahve-i), بور (bur) | زَرْد (zard); کِرِم (kerem) |
| سَبْزِ لیمویی (sabz-e limuyi) | سَبْز (sabz) | |
| آبیِ دَرْیَایی (âbi-ye daryâyi); سَبْزِ دودی (sabz-e dudi), فیروزِه‌ای (firuze-i) | لَاجْوَرْدی (lâjvardi) | آبی (âbi), سُرْمِه‌ای (sorme-i) |
| بَنَفْش (banafš); نیلی (nili) | سُرْخَابی (sorxâbi); اَرْغَوَانی (arğavâni) | صورَتی (surati) |
Colors in Persian · رَنْگ‌هَا (rang-hā) (layout · text) :
| سَفید (safēd) | خَاکِسْتَرِی (xākistarī), فولَادِی (fōlādī) | سِیَاه (siyāh), مُشْکِی (muškī) |
| سُرْخ (surx); قِرْمِزِی (qirmizī) | نَارَنْجِی (nāranjī); نَسْوَارِی (naswārī), بور (bōr), قَهْوَه‌یِی (qahwa-yī) | زَرْد (zard); کِرِیمِی (kirīmī) |
| سَبْزِ لِیمُویِی (sabz-i līmūyī) | سَبْز (sabz) | سَبْزِ آبِی (sabz-i ābī) |
| آبِیِ دَرْیَایِی (ābī-yi daryāyī); سَبْزِ دُودِی (sabz-i dūdī), فیروزَه‌یِی (fērōza-yī) | آسْمَانِی (āsmānī) | آبِی (ābī), آبِیِ تِیرَه (ābī-yi tīra) |
| بِنَفْش (binafš); نِیلِی (nīlī) | سُرْخَابِی (surxābī); اَرْغَوَانِی (arğawānī), بَانْجَانِی (bānjānī) | گُلَابِی (gulābī) |

#### Further reading

* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بور”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bōr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 189
* Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 152

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bore.

#### Noun

بور • (bor)
* boron

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bore.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /boːɾ/

### Adjective

بور • (bor) (Hindi spelling बोर)
* bored

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Urdu بور (bōr).

### Adjective

بور (bōr) (noun)
* suffering from boredom

## Uyghur
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bor/

### Etymology 1

From Chagatai بور (bor), from Proto-Turkic *bōr. Cognates with Bashkir бур (bur), Kazakh бор (bor), Tatar акбур (aqbur), aqbur, Uzbek boʻr.

#### Noun

بور • (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))
* chalk
    Synonym: ئاقبور (aqbor)

### Etymology 2

From Russian бор (bor).

#### Noun

بور • (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))
* (chemistry) boron

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

### Further reading

* Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN