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boar
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)
- A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
- A male pig.
- A male boar (sense 1).
- A male bear.
- 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)
- (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)
- 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)
- drill, bore
Further reading
- “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
Etymology
Uncertain. Maybe from Middle English bor.
Noun
boar
- 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
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brawner
English
Etymology
brawn (“boar”) +? -er
Noun
brawner (plural brawners)
- A boar killed for the table.
- 1809, Sidney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review:
- [A]nd it is now the universal opinion among all enlightened men, that the misery of the brawner would be very little diminished, if he could be made sensible that he was to be eaten up only by persons of the first fashion.
- 1809, Sidney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review:
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