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بور

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See also: ثور, توژ, پور, پوز, بوز, and تور

Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Root
ب و ر (b w r)
2 terms

Compare بَارَ (bāra, to lie fallow).

Adjective

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بُور (būr)

  1. fallow, uncultivated
  2. stagnant, waste-
Declension
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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بَوَّرَ (bawwara) II (non-past يُبَوِّرُ (yubawwiru), verbal noun تَبْوِير (tabwīr))

  1. to let lie fallow, to leave uncultivated, to leave unsown
  2. to make unprofitable, to make useless
Conjugation
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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بَوْر (bawrm

  1. verbal noun of بَارَ (bāra) (form I)
Declension
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Etymology 4

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Proper noun

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بُور (būr?

  1. Bor (a city in South Sudan)

Etymology 5

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From French port.

Noun

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بُور (būr)

  1. Synonym of مَرْفَأ (marfaʔ, port, harbor) used only in place names
Derived terms
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Khalaj

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Adjective

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بور (bûor)

  1. Arabic spelling of bûor (nut-brown)

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Arabic بُور (būr).

Adjective

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بور (bur)

  1. (of land) unfit for cultivation; waste-
  2. useless

Etymology 2

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From Persian بور.

Adjective

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بور (bur)

  1. roan

Etymology 3

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From French bore.

Noun

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بور (bor)

  1. boron

References

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/, reddish-brown, bay [horse]). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, yellow), Northern Kurdish bor (grey) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, hyena). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (brown).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? bōr
Dari reading? bōr
Iranian reading? bur
Tajik reading? bür

Adjective

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Dari بور
Iranian Persian
Tajik бӯр

بور (bur)

  1. fair, blonde
  2. reddish brown, bay
  3. (dialectal) brown
Descendants
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  • Khalaj: bûor

See also

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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French bore.

Noun

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بور (bor)

  1. boron

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English bore.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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بور (bor) (Hindi spelling बोर)

  1. bored

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Urdu بور (bōr).

Adjective

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بور (bōr) (noun)

  1. suffering from boredom

Uyghur

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Chagatai بور (bor), from Proto-Turkic *bōr.[1] Cognates with Bashkir бур (bur), Kazakh бор (bor), Tatar акбур (aqbur), aqbur, Uzbek boʻr.

Noun

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بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. chalk
    Synonym: ئاقبور (aqbor)

Etymology 2

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Chemical element
B
Previous: بېرىللىي (bërilliy) (Be)
Next: كاربون (karbon) (C)

From Russian бор (bor).

Noun

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بور (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

  1. (chemistry) boron

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bōr”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading

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  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN