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Bora

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.

    "Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora."

  2. 2
    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?"

  3. 3
    An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon. plural, plural-only

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Gamilaraay būru.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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.

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