name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
boron
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Pronunciation
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bôr'ŏn
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/ˈbɔːˌɹɒn/
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South-Asia: /bo.rɔn/
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rhymes with -ɔːɹɒn
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CMU ARPABET: B AO1 R AA2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
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noun
Meaning 3
The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 4
An atom of this element.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 5
a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: B, atomic number 5
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Broader terms: chemical element, element
History
Etymology
* As a Polish surname, pet form of Borzysław, Borzymir, formed from obsolete bor (“to fight”), from Proto-Slavic *borti. * As a French surname, from a placename in Franche-Comté. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Baron. * The placename in California is from the element boron.
Etymology tree Middle Persian *bōragbor. Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der. Medieval Latin boraxder. Anglo-Norman boreisbor. Middle English boras English borax English boro- Proto-Indo-European *kerh3-der.? Latin carbōnemlbor. French carbonebor. English carbonbf. English -on English boron From the stem of borax (boro-) + -on (based on carbon). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy as a modification of his earlier word boracium.
Across languages
Translations
115 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: boor — chemical element
- Albanian: bor — chemical element
- Arabic: بُورُون (būrūn) — chemical element
- Arabic: بُور (būr) — chemical element
- Armenian: բոր (bor) — chemical element
- Asturian: boru — chemical element
- Basque: boroa — chemical element
- Belarusian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Bengali: বোরন (bōron) — chemical element
- Breton: bor — chemical element
- Bulgarian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Burmese: ဘိုရွန် (bhuirwan) — chemical element
- Catalan: bor — chemical element
- Chinese Cantonese: 硼 (pang4) — chemical element
- Eastern Min Chinese: 硼 (bèng) — chemical element
- Hakka Chinese: 硼 (phìn) — chemical element
- Chinese: 硼 (phêng) — chemical element
- Chinese Mandarin: 硼 (péng) — chemical element
- Chuvash: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Cornish: boron — chemical element
- Corsican: boru — chemical element
- Czech: bor — chemical element
- Czech: bór — chemical element
- Danish: bor — chemical element
- Dutch: boor — chemical element
- Dutch: borium — chemical element
- Esperanto: boro — chemical element
- Estonian: boor — chemical element
- Faroese: bor — chemical element
- Finnish: boori — chemical element
- French: bore — chemical element
- Saterland Frisian: bor — chemical element
- West-Frisian: boar — chemical element
- Friulian: bôr — chemical element
- Galician: boro — chemical element
- Georgian: ბორი (bori) — chemical element
- German: Bor — chemical element
- Greek: βόριο (vório) — chemical element
- Hawaiian: boron — chemical element
- Hebrew: בורון — chemical element
- Hebrew: בּוֹר (bor) — chemical element
- Hindi: टांकण (ṭāṅkaṇ) — chemical element
- Hungarian: bór — chemical element
- Icelandic: bór — chemical element
- Ido: borono — chemical element
- Indonesian: boron — chemical element
- Interlingua: boro — chemical element
- Irish: bórón — chemical element
- Italian: boro — chemical element
- Japanese: ホウ素 (hōso) — chemical element
- Japanese: 硼素 (hōso) — chemical element
- Javanese: boron — chemical element
- Kannada: ಬೊರಾನ (borāna) — chemical element
- Kashubian: bòr — chemical element
- Kazakh: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Khmer: បរ (bɑɑ) — chemical element
- Korean: 붕소 (bungso) — chemical element
- Northern Kurdish: boron — chemical element
- Kyrgyz: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Latin: borium — chemical element
- Latvian: bors — chemical element
- Lingala: bolo — chemical element
- Lithuanian: boras — chemical element
- Low German: bor — chemical element
- Luxembourgish: Bor — chemical element
- Macedonian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Malay: boron — chemical element
- Malayalam: ബോറോൺ (bōṟōṇ) — chemical element
- Maltese: boron — chemical element
- Manx: boron — chemical element
- Māori: pūtiwha — chemical element
- Marathi: बोरॉन (borŏn) — chemical element
- Mongolian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Nahuatl: xacoiztatl — chemical element
- Norwegian Bokmål: bor — chemical element
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bor — chemical element
- Occitan: bòr — chemical element
- Persian: بور (bor) — chemical element
- Polish: bor — chemical element
- Portuguese: boro — chemical element
- Punjabi: ਬਰਾਨ (barān) — chemical element
- Quechua: boru — chemical element
- Romanian: bor — chemical element
- Russian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Sanskrit: बोरान (borāna) — chemical element
- Scottish Gaelic: bòron — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: бор — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: bor — chemical element
- Sicilian: boru — chemical element
- Slovak: bór — chemical element
- Slovene: bor — chemical element
- Spanish: boro — chemical element
- Swahili: boroni — chemical element
- Swedish: bor — chemical element
- Tagalog: boro — chemical element
- Tajik: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Tamil: போரான் (pōrāṉ) — chemical element
- Tamil: கார்மம் (kārmam) — chemical element
- Thai: โบรอน (boo-rɔ̂n) — chemical element
- Tibetan: ཚ་ལ་ནག་པོ (tsha la nag po) — chemical element
- Tibetan: ཚ་ནག (tsha nag) — chemical element
- Turkish: bor — chemical element
- Ottoman Turkish: بور (bor) — chemical element
- Turkmen: bor — chemical element
- Ukrainian: бор (bor) — chemical element
- Uyghur: بور (bor) — chemical element
- Uzbek: bor — chemical element
- Vietnamese: bo — chemical element
- Volapük: borin — chemical element
- Welsh: boron — chemical element
- Yiddish: באָר (bor) — chemical element
- Zazaki: bor (diq) — chemical element
- Bulgarian: бор (bor) — single atom
- Finnish: booriatomi — single atom
- Korean: 붕소원자 (bungsowonja) — single atom