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English

Etymology

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Noun

kora (plural koras)

1. (music) A type of harp played in West Africa.

Derived terms

• koraist

See also

• kora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• akro-, okra

Esperanto

Etymology

From koro (“heart”) +? -a (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kora/
• Hyphenation: ko?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

kora (accusative singular koran, plural koraj, accusative plural korajn)

1. relating to the heart; cardiac
2. heartfelt, cordial

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kor?]
• Hyphenation: ko?ra
• Homophone: Cora (hypermarket in Hungary between 1997 and 2012)
• Rhymes: -r?

Etymology 1

Back-formation from korán (“early”).

Adjective

kora (comparative (archaic) korább, superlative (archaic) legkorább)

1. early (near the start or beginning)

2. early (at a time in advance of the usual or expected event)

Derived terms

• korai

(Compound words):

• koraszülött

Etymology 2

kor (“age”) +? -a (possessive suffix)

Noun

kora

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

Declension

Derived terms

• korabeli
• kori (Etymology 2)

Further reading

• kora in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

kora

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Latvian

Noun

kora m

1. genitive singular form of koris

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

kora n

1. definite singular of kor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /?ku?.r?/ (example of pronunciation)
• (verb): IPA^(key): /²ku?.r?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

kora n

1. definite singular of kor

Verb

kora (present tense korar, past tense kora, past participle kora, passive infinitive korast, present participle korande, imperative kor)

1. alternative form of kore

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.ra/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *kora, from Proto-Indo-European *ker- whence English cortex and decorticate.

Noun

kora f

1. bark (of trees)
2. crust
3. cortex

Declension

Related terms

• korowy, podkorowy

Etymology 2

Noun

kora f

1. (sculpture) kore

Declension

Etymology 3

Noun

kora f

1. kora (string instrument)

Declension

Further reading

• kora in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rwanda-Rundi

Verb

-kóra (infinitive gukóra, perfective -kóze)

1. do
2. work
3. fix

Derived terms

• -koresha
• umukozi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôra/
• Hyphenation: ko?ra

Noun

k?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. bark (of trees)
2. crust

Declension

References

• “kora” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Turkish

Noun

kora

1. dative singular of kor

Vilamovian

Noun

kora f

1. punishment

Synonyms

• ?tröf f

Westrobothnian

Verb

kora

1. Alternative spelling of köra

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