name
Meaning 1
A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.
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Standard Lemma guide
bora
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Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: B AO1 R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
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noun
Meaning 4
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.
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noun
Meaning 5
An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative form of Bohra.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion
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History
Etymology
Various origins: * Borrowed from Assamese বৰা (bora), a surname of unclear origin. * Borrowed from Romanian Bora, a feminine hypocoristic form of the personal name Boris. * Borrowed from Polish Bora, a pet form of Borzyslaw or Bolebor. * Borrowed from Hungarian Bora, a variant of Bara.
From Gamilaraay būru.
Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: bora — wind
- Friulian: buere — wind
- Friulian: bure — wind
- Hungarian: bóra — wind
- Italian: bora — wind
- Malay: bora — wind
- Ottoman Turkish: پویراز (poyraz) — wind
- Pannonian Rusyn: бура (bura) — wind
- Polish: bora — wind
- Serbo-Croatian: bura — wind
- Slovene: burja — wind
- Venetan: bora — wind