different between boar vs boyar

English

Etymology

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /b??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /b??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?r, IPA^(key): /bo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /bo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: bore, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

Noun

boar (plural boars or boar)

1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
2. A male pig.
3. A male boar (sense 1).
4. A male bear.
5. A male guinea pig.

Coordinate terms

• sow

Derived terms

• boar-spear
• herd boar

Translations

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)

1. (historical) a Boer

Related terms

• afrikandar

See also

• boer (Bokmål)

References

• “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• bouar

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bov?rius or bo?rius (“cow herder”), from Latin bov?rius, bo?rius (“of cattle”), from b?s. Equivalent to bou +? -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.

Noun

boar m (plural boari)

1. cowherd

Related terms

• bou

See also

• v?car

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. drill, bore

Further reading

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

Yola

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Middle English bor.

Noun

boar

1. hedgehog

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• boyard
• bolyard

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (bojáre), plural of ??????? (bojárin).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b????/, /?b??j??/, /b???j??/

Noun

boyar (plural boyars)

1. (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
   • 1997, John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium, Penguin 1998, p. 159:

     Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.

   • 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 68:

     A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 514:

     some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.

Synonyms

• barin

Translations

Anagrams

• baryo-

Spanish

Etymology

boya +? -ar

Verb

boyar (first-person singular present boyo, first-person singular preterite boyé, past participle boyado)

1. (intransitive) to float

Conjugation

Further reading

• “boyar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.