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bora¹

Where it comes from

From Gamilaraay būru.

noun boras · Bora

  1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales. Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.

    Similar: burbung

bora²

Where it comes from

Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās.

noun

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

Bora³

noun

  1. plural, plural only An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.

proper noun

  1. A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.

Bora⁴

noun Boras

  1. alternative Alternative form of Bohra

Bora⁵

Where it comes from

Various origins:

* Borrowed from Assamese বৰা (bora), a surname of unclear origin.

* Borrowed from Romanian Bora, a feminine hypocoristic form of the personal name Boris.

* Borrowed from Polish Bora, a pet form of Borzyslaw or Bolebor.

* Borrowed from Hungarian Bora, a variant of Bara.

proper noun Boras

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: borah, tora, bora ground, bogwera, bojale, bunggul, abakwetha, sorry business, intichiuma, bomboora, smoking ceremony, tjurunga, pōhiri, nyabinghi, powwow, churinga

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noun wind

日本語颪 arashi
Italianobora

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"bora." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bora. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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bora. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bora

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"bora." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bora.

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@misc{bora_2026,
  title = {bora},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bora},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}