different between boer vs laager

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

1. A farmer; peasant.
2. (chess) A pawn; least valuable piece in chess.

   Synonym: pion

Descendants

• ? English: Boer

Etymology 2

From Dutch boeren.

Verb

boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer)

1. To farm.
2. To continuously encounter someone at a specific place

3. To stay; to sojourn; to linger

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo??r/, [?b?o???]

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

1. A Boer.

Inflection

Further reading

• boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

boer

1. indefinite plural of bo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/
• Hyphenation: boer
• Rhymes: -ur

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -?- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English b?r, ?eb?r (whence English bower) and Old High German b?r (whence German Bauer).

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin)

1. A (male) farmer, peasant.

   Synonym: bouwman

   Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder

2. A boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic.
3. (in compounds) A merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
4. A jack (playing card).

Alternative forms

• bouwer

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boer
  • ? English: Boer
• ? Sranan Tongo: buru
  • ? Dutch: boeroe
• ? English: boor

Etymology 2

Originally onomatopoetic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen.

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

1. A belch, a burp.

Derived terms

• boeren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boer

1. first-person singular present indicative of boeren
2. imperative of boeren

Anagrams

• bore
• ober

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.er/, [?bo?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.er/, [?b???r]

Verb

boer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of bo?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch boer

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne)

1. (historical) A Boer.

Related terms

• afrikander

See also

• boar (Nynorsk)

References

• “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boerar, definite plural boerane)

1. form removed by a 1987 spelling decision; superseded by boar

Anagrams

• bore

English

Alternative forms

• lager

Etymology

From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legr?. Doublet of lager and lair.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/
• (Canada, military) IPA^(key): /?li.???/
• Rhymes: -????(r)

Noun

laager (plural laagers)

1. A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 332:

     “And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.”

2. (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with lager beer (though both words come from the German Lager).

Translations

Verb

laager (third-person singular simple present laagers, present participle laagering, simple past and past participle laagered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
   • 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished

     At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.

2. (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.
   • 2000, Jeff Dossett, Delayed Detonation (page 44)

     That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.

See also

• laager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• circle the wagons

Anagrams

• aglare, alegar

Estonian

Etymology

From German Lager. Etymological twin of leer.

Noun

laager (genitive laagri, partitive laagrit)

1. camp
2. bearing (mechanical device)

Declension