English

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings

• Bora

Noun

1. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

Synonyms

• burbung

Quotations

• 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...

Etymology 2

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.
   • 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?

Bosnian

Noun

1. wrinkle
2. pleat
3. fold

Declension

Croatian

Noun

1. wrinkle
2. fold

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

Verb

1. to bore, drill

Norwegian

Verb

1. Form of past tense, bore

Old English

Etymology

Noun

1. bearer (in compounds)

Serbian

Noun

1. wrinkle
2. pleat
3. fold

Declension

Swahili

Adjective

1. fine

• Bora (wind), a wind in Adriatic, Greece, Russia and Turkey
• Bora language, a Witotoan language spoken in Peru, Brazil, and Colombia
• Bora people, the ethnic group that speaks the Bora language
• Boracay, a cay in the Philippines
• Velibor "Bora" Milutinovic, a Serbian soccer coach
• Bora, a surname among Indian people. Basically these are Assamese, but these are found in Marwaris and other castes too
• Borá, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil
• Bora, Ethiopia
• an alternative name for Volkswagen Jetta, a German automobile
• Maserati Bora, an Italian sports car
• Bora Class guided missile hovercraft, a hoverborne cruise missile attack craft in the Russian navy
• Bora (Australian), the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings
• Bora, a super-powerful robot that fought Pluto in an episode of Astro Boy. Bora's attack is a powerful cry that releases a katabatic wind, reminiscent of his name
• Bora, a group of rebel colonists found in the 2000 game Tachyon: The Fringe
• Bora is a character on Dragon Ball
• Bora means Purple (violet) in Korean
• Bora (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
• Bora,a male name in Turkish meaning wild wind.
• Bora: Sons of the Beach, a defunct sitcom produced by the Philippine television network ABS-CBN.

See also

• Bora Bora (disambiguation)