# bora
## English
### Etymology 1

From Gamilaraay būru.

#### Alternative forms

* Bora

#### Noun

bora (plural boras)
* An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people 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, volume 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, volume 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...

##### Synonyms

* burbung

##### Derived terms

* bora ground

### Etymology 2

Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or 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, published 2007, page 650:When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Abor, Baro, baro-, boar, broa

## Albanian
### Noun

bora
* definite nominative singular of borë

## Chibcha
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bola.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βoɾa/

### Noun

bora
* ball

### References

* Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

## Cornish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *bọreɣ, from Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”). Cognate with Breton beure (“morning”) and Welsh bore (“morning”).

#### Noun

bora m (plural boraow)
* dawn

##### Related terms

* myttin (“morning”)
* mo (“dusk”)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

bora m (plural borys)
* boar
    Synonyms: torgh, badh

### Mutation
## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bóː.ɽàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [bóː.ɽàː]

### Noun

bōrā̀ f (possessed form bōràr̃)
* less-favored wife, wife who is not her husband's favorite

#### See also

* mōwā̀

## Hungarian
### Etymology

bor +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈborɒ]
* Hyphenation: bo‧ra

### Noun

bora
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of bor

#### Declension
## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔːra/
* Rhymes: -ɔːra

### 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)
* to bore, drill [intransitive or with accusative]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Old Norse bora, from bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”).

#### Noun

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)
* hole (small and undesirable abode)
* butthole (anus)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bora m
* indefinite accusative/genitive plural of bor

## Italian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin borea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔ.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɔra
* Hyphenation: bò‧ra

### Noun

bora f (plural bore)
* bora (north-eastern wind)

### Anagrams

* Orba, baro, baro-, barò, orba, roba

## Ladino
### Etymology

From Greek βορράς (vorrás, “north; violent north wind”), from Ancient Greek Βορρᾶς (Borrhâs).

### Noun

bora f
* storm, torrential rain, gust of wind

### Further reading

* Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “bóra”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 96

## Latvian
### Noun

bora m
* genitive singular of bors

## Northern Sami
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

#### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpoːra/

#### Noun

bōra
* boron

##### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpora/

#### Verb

bora
* inflection of borrat:
** present indicative connegative
** second-person singular imperative
** imperative connegative

## Northern Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

### Noun

bora
* bow

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* borene n or m (of bor, Etymology 2)
* boret (of bore)

### Noun

bora n
* definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

### Verb

bora
* inflection of bore:
** simple past
** past participle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* borane

### Noun

bora n or m
* definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

## Old English
### Verb

bora
* imperative singular of borian

## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *burōną (“to drill, pierce, bore”).

#### Verb

bora
* to bore

##### Descendants

* Icelandic: bora
* Faroese: bora
* Norwegian Nynorsk: bore
* Norwegian Bokmål: bore
* Old Swedish: bora, bura
** Swedish: borra
* Danish: bore
* Gutnish: bure, bur', bura

#### Noun

bora f (genitive boru, plural borur)
* a drilling hole

##### Descendants

* Norwegian Nynorsk: bore f

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

bora
* inflection of borr:
** indefinite accusative plural
** indefinite genitive plural

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bora”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* bura

### Etymology

From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.

### Verb

bora
* to drill, penetrate

#### Descendants

* Swedish: borra

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Clipping of embora, from the phrase vamos embora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔ.ɾɐ/
* Hyphenation: bo‧ra

### Interjection

bora
* (informal) let's go
    Synonyms: vamos, vamos lá, vambora, vamo lá, vamo
    Bora! ― Let's go!

### Particle

bora
* (informal) hortative and cohortative particle; let's
    Synonym: vamos
    Bora comprar algo para comer? ― How about we buy something to eat?

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [boˈra]

### Verb

bora
* third-person singular imperfect indicative of borî

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* bura (Sutsilvan)

### Noun

bora f (plural boras)
* (sports, Surmiran) ball

#### Synonyms

* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling бо́ра)
* wrinkle
* (geology) fold

#### Declension
## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, “large, great, massive; important; very”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

bora (invariable)
* fine, excellent
* better
* best

#### Derived terms

* Nominal derivations:
** ubora

## Tswana
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà.

### Noun

bora class 14 (plural mara)
* bow

## Turkish
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

bora
* dative singular of bor

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورا (bora, “squall, tempest”), possibly a derivation from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”). Cognate with Crimean Tatar and Turkmen boran, Bashkir буран (buran), Kazakh боран (boran). Or a wanderword, compare Italian bora, ultimately from Latin borea and, Greek μπόρα (mpóra). The same root as bora is found in the name of the Greek mythological figure of Boreas (Βορέας). Scholars argue, the Serbo-Croatian name bura and Slovene burja are not etymologically related to bora; they derive from Common Slavic burja 'storm' (from the verb *burĭti), and the meaning 'bora' developed later.

#### Noun

bora (definite accusative borayı, plural boralar)
* (meteorology) squall.
* (often nautical) more specifically the bora is a northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind. Regardless of its direction, it can gather a hurricane-strength, thus it is a storm too.

### References

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

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1

From bó (“to peel”) +‎ ara (“body”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bó.ɾā/

#### Verb

bóra
* (transitive) to bleach one's skin; to lighten one's skin
* (literal) to peel one's body

##### Derived terms

* ìbóra (“skin bleaching”)

### Etymology 2

From bo (“to cover”) +‎ ara (“body”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bō.ɾā/

#### Verb

bora
* to cover the body