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English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA(key): /bɔɹ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA(key): /bɔː/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /boə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophones: bore, Bohr; boor (pour–poor merger)
Noun
[edit]boar (plural boars or boar)
- A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
- A male pig.
- A male boar (sense 1).
- A male bear.
- A male guinea pig.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]wild boar — see wild boar
male pig
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See also
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)
- (historical) a Boer
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- boer (Bokmål)
References
[edit]- “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou + -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero.
Noun
[edit]boar m (plural boari)
Declension
[edit]Declension of boar
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)
Further reading
[edit]- “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boar
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27
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