different between bora vs borax

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin baurach (“borax”), from Arabic ???????? (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (b?rag), which yielded Persian ????? (bure).

Noun

borax (uncountable)

1. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
2. (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
3. (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
   • 1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five

     Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.

Synonyms

• E285 when used as a preservative

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Borax”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “borax”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• borax at the Free Dictionary

Romanian

Etymology

From French borax

Noun

borax n (uncountable)

1. borax

Declension