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Bora
Bora
English
Proper noun
Bora
See also
- Wiktionary's coverage of Bora terms
Albanian
Etymology
From borë 'snow'. Perhaps related to attested Illyrian name Bora, Boria.
Proper noun
Bora f
- A female given name
- snow
Related terms
Turkish
Etymology
Related to Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās, “north wind”).
Proper noun
Bora
- A male given name
bora
bora
English
Alternative forms
Noun
bora (plural boras)
- A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
Synonyms
- burbung
Quotations
- 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...
Etymology 2
Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”), from Latin Boreās.
Noun
bora (uncountable)
- 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
bor + -a (“possessive suffix”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈborɒ]
- Hyphenation: bo‧ra
Noun
bora
- third-person singular (single possession) possessive of bor
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /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)
- (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill
Conjugation
bora — active voice (germynd)
| infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að bora | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| supine (sagnbót) |
borað | ||||
| present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
borandi | ||||
| indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) |
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| 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. | |||||
borast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
| infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að borast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) |
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| 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. | |||||
boraður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
| strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
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| 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) |
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| 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
declension of bora
Etymology 3
Noun
bora m
Northern Sami
Verb
bora
- inflection of borrat:
- present indicative connegative
- second-person singular imperative
- imperative connegative
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
bora n
- definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)
Verb
bora
Old Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną.
Verb
bora
Conjugation
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Conjugation of bora (weak)
| present | past | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan) bura
Noun
bora f (plural boras)
Synonyms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla