# boar
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA: /boɹ/
* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA: /bɔː/
* (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA: /bo(ː)ɹ/
* (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /boə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
* Homophones: bore, Bohr; boor (pour–poor merger)

### Noun

boar (plural boars or boar)
* A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
** 2024 August 24, Stephen Castle, “The Loch Ness Monster Has Company in the Neighborhood: Wild Boars”, in The New York Times‎:And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.
* A male pig.
** 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times‎:"Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.
* A male boar (sense 1).
* A male bear.
* A male guinea pig.

#### Coordinate terms

* sow

#### Derived terms

* barling
* boarfish
* boarhide
* boarhound
* boarish
* boarlike
* boar-spear
* boar taint
* hedgy-boar
* herd boar
* useless as tits on a boar hog
* wereboar
* wild boar

#### Translations

Arabic: خِنْزِير m (ḵinzīr)
Egyptian Arabic: خنزير m (xanziir)
Armenian: արու խոզ (aru xoz)
Asturian: gochu (ast)
Belarusian: каба́н m (kabán)
Bikol Central: butakal
Bulgarian: шопар (bg) m (šopar)
Burmese: ဝက်ထီး (my) (wakhti:)
Catalan: verro (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 公豬 / 公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū), 公豬 / 公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū)
Czech: kanec (cs) m
Danish: orne (da), galt (da) (castrated)
Dutch: beer (nl), mannetjesvarken
Egyptian: (rrj)
Esperanto: virporko, porkiĉo
Finnish: karju (fi)
French: verrat (fr) m
Friulian: viru
Galician: cocho (gl) m
Georgian: ქოსმენი (kosmeni)
German: Eber (de) m
Greek: κάπρος (el) m (kápros)
Hungarian: kan (hu)
Icelandic: göltur m
Ingrian: kullisika
Interlingua: verre
Irish: collach m
Italian: verro (it) m
Japanese: 雄ブタ (osubuta), 雄豚 (おすぶた, osubuta)
Khiamniungan Naga: yōhlòu
Korean: 수퇘지 (ko) (sutwaeji), 멧돼지 (ko) (metdwaeji)
Kyrgyz: каба́н m (kabán)
Latgalian: keiļs m
Latin: verres
Latvian: kuilis (lv) m
Lithuanian: kuilys (lt) m
Low German: Beer (nds) m
Macedonian: крмак m (krmak)
Maori: tāriana, reiputa (if has tusks), poa
Norman: véthot m (Jersey)
Norwegian: galte (no) m (castrated), råne (no) m
Persian: خوک نر (xukê nar)
Polish: kaban (pl) m, kiernoz (pl) m, knur (pl) m, odyniec (pl) m
Portuguese: barrão (pt) m, cachaço (pt) m
Romanian: vier (ro), mascur (ro) (castrated)
Romansch: ver, verr m, vier m
Russian: каба́н (ru) m (kabán), хряк (ru) m (xrjak), бо́ров (ru) m (bórov)
Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
Scottish Gaelic: torc m
Sicilian: canzirru (scn), verru (scn)
Slovene: merjasec (sl) m
Spanish: verraco (es) m
Swedish: galt (sv)
Tagalog: bulugan
Tarifit: iref m
Tatar: дуңгыз (tt) (duñgız)
Telugu: పంది (te) (pandi)
Ukrainian: каба́н (uk) m (kabán) :
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### See also

* hog
* pig
* swine

### Anagrams

* Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Dutch boer.

### Noun

boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)
* (historical) a Boer

#### Related terms

* afrikandar

### See also

* boer (Bokmål)

### References

* “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* bouar

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou +‎ -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.

### Noun

boar m (plural boari)
* cowherd

#### Related terms

* bou

#### See also

* văcar

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Dutch boor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboə̯r/

### Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)
* drill, bore

#### Further reading

* “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔːr/

### Noun

boar
* hedgehog

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27