different between bona vs bora

English

Alternative forms

• bonar

Etymology

Borrowed from Sabir bona (“good”), from Italian buono (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duenos (“good”), from Proto-Italic *dwenos (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Adjective

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Good.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:good

Antonyms

• cod (Polari)
• See Thesaurus:bad

Derived terms

• bona omi, bona nochy, bona vardering

Adverb

bona (comparative more bona, superlative most bona)

1. (Polari) Well.

See also

• bona fide

References

Anagrams

• AONB, Abon, Bano, Oban, baon

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?b?.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?b?.na/
• Rhymes: -?na

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bo

Esperanto

Etymology

Common Romance, ultimately from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.na/
• Hyphenation: bo?na
• Rhymes: -ona

Adjective

bona (accusative singular bonan, plural bonaj, accusative plural bonajn)

1. good
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     Mensoganto devas havi bonan memoron.

     A liar has to have a good memory.

   Antonym: malbona

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -bona, from Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bona, French bon, Italian buono, Spanish bueno, ultimately from Latin bonus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bona/

Adjective

bona

1. good

   Antonym: mala

Related terms

Italian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bono

Ladin

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Lala (South Africa)

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Latin

Pronunciation

• bona: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b?nä]
• bona: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b??n?]
• bon?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na?/, [?b?nä?]
• bon?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bo.na/, [?b??n?]

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective 1

bona

1. inflection of bonus (“good”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective 2

bon?

1. ablative feminine singular of bonus

Etymology 2

Feminine of the noun bonus (“a good man”).

Noun 1

bona f (genitive bonae); first declension

1. A good or brave woman.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Noun 2

bon?

1. ablative singular of bona

Etymology 3

Inflection of the noun bonum.

Noun

bona

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of bonum (“a good thing”)

References

• bona in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• bona in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bona in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Northern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baun?, whence also Old Saxon b?na, Old English b?an, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?-.

Noun

b?na f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle High German: b?ne
  • Alemannic German: Bone
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Bohn

    Luxembourgish: Boun

  • German: Bohne
  • Rhine Franconian: Bohn

    Frankfurterisch: [b?õ?n]

    Pennsylvania German: Bohn, Buhn

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bona/

Noun

bona

1. genitive singular of bun

Mutation

Old Occitan

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baun?, whence also Old English b?an, Old Frisian b?ne, Old High German b?na, Old Norse baun. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?-.

Noun

b?na f

1. (botany) A bean

Descendants

• Middle Low German: bône
  • German Low German: Bohn

    Plautdietsch: Boon

  • ? Westrobothnian: bø?n

Oromo

Noun

bona

1. winter

Phuthi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna (infinitive kubóna, perfective -bônye)

1. to see
2. to find, get

Serbo-Croatian

Interjection

bóna (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Bosnia, informal) a way of addressing a familiar female

See also

• b?lan

References

• “bona” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

bona

1. to see

Southern Ndebele

Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Swazi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bóna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

bona

1. definite plural of bo

Etymology 2

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

Verb

bona (present bonar, preterite bonade, supine bonat, imperative bona)

1. to wax or polish a floor

2. (rare or archaic) to equip, to decorate, to dress, to wrap (see also ombona)

Conjugation

See also

• böna
• dona
• ombona

Anagrams

• boan, nabo

Venetian

Adjective

bona f

1. feminine singular of bon

Xhosa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?o?ná]

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?o?ná]

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. to see

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• -bonisa
• -bonisisa

Zulu

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ná/

Pronoun

boná

1. they, them; class 2 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Proto-Nguni *boná.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ná/

Pronoun

boná

1. it; class 14 absolute pronoun.

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Proto-Bantu *-bóna.

Verb

-bôna

1. (transitive) to see
2. (transitive) to understand, to comprehend
3. (transitive) to recognise
4. (transitive) to seek out, to visit

Inflection

Derived terms

• -bonela (applicative)
• -bonisa (causative)
• -bonisisa (intensive)
• -bonakala (neuter-passive)
• -bonwa (passive)
• -bonana (reciprocal)
• sawubona
• umabonakude

English

Etymology 1

From Gamilaraay b?ru.

Alternative forms

• Bora

Noun

bora (plural boras)

1. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
   • 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 2:

     Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.

   • 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 14:

     By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...

Synonyms

• burbung

Derived terms

• bora ground

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”), from Latin Bore?s.

Noun

bora

1. 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.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 650:

     When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

Translations

Anagrams

• Abor, Baro, baro-, boar, broa

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish bola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?a/

Noun

bora

1. ball

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Hungarian

Etymology

bor +? -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bor?]
• Hyphenation: bo?ra

Noun

bora

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of bor

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??ra/
• Rhymes: -??ra

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”) (Icelandic bor).

Verb

bora (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative boraði, supine borað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Norse bora, from bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”).

Noun

bora f (genitive singular boru, nominative plural borur)

1. hole (small and undesirable abode)
2. butthole (anus)

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

bora m

1. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of bor

Italian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin borea.

Noun

bora f (plural bore)

1. bora (north-eastern wind)

Latvian

Noun

bora m

1. genitive singular form of bors

Northern Sami

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Norwegian bor.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?po?ra/

Noun

b?ra

1. boron

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pora/

Verb

bora

1. inflection of borrat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *b??táà.

Noun

bora

1. bow

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of bor) borene n or m (Etymology 2)
• (of bore) boret

Noun

bora n

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Verb

bora

1. inflection of bore:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• borane

Noun

bora n or m

1. definite neuter plural of bor (Etymology 2)

Old English

Etymology

From the verb beran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bo.r?/

Noun

bora m

1. bearer (only attested in compounds)

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *bur?n? (“to drill, pierce, bore”).

Verb

bora

1. to bore

Conjugation

Descendants

Noun

bora f (genitive boru, plural borur)

1. a drilling hole

Declension

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: bore f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

bora

1. inflection of borr:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

References

• bora in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• bura

Etymology

From Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *bur?n?.

Verb

bora

1. to drill, penetrate

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: borra

Portuguese

Etymology

Short for embora. From the phrase vamos embora.

Interjection

bora

1. let's go

   Synonyms: vamos, vamos lá, vamo, vamo lá, vambora

2. let's

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bo?ra]

Verb

bora

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of borî

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) bura

Noun

bora f (plural boras)

1. (sports, Surmiran) ball

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) balla

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bóra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. wrinkle
2. (geology) fold

Declension

Swahili

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (ba??, “large, great, massive; important; very”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bora (invariable)

1. fine, excellent
2. better
3. best

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • ubora

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *b??táà.

Noun

bora 14 (plural mara)

1. bow

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

bora

1. dative singular of bor

Etymology 2

Noun

bora (definite accusative boray?, plural boralar)

1. (meteorology) squall

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• (Kalix) IPA^(key): /?bura/
• (Skellefteå) IPA^(key): /²bo?ra/
• (Umeå) IPA^(key): /²b??ra/

  Rhymes: -??ra

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -??ra, -??ða

Etymology

From Old Norse bora (“to drill”), from borr (“drill”) (Westrobothnian bor).

Verb

bora (preterite & supine bora)

1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to bore, drill