بورا
Appearance
Khalaj
[edit]Adverb
[edit]بوْرا (bôra)
Declension
[edit]Declension of بورا
Malay
[edit]Verb
[edit]بورا
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), whence بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”). Cognate with Bashkir буран (buran), Crimean Tatar boran, Kazakh боран (boran) and Turkmen boran. Alternatively, it could be a wanderwort related to Italian bora and Greek μπόρα (bóra).
Alternative forms
[edit]- بوره (bora)
Noun
[edit]بورا • (bora)
- squall, tempest, a storm with severe winds
- Synonym: فورطنه (furtuna, fırtına)
- (figuratively) tremendous scolding, flood of vituperation
Derived terms
[edit]- بورا پاتلامق (bora patlamak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)
- بوراچیقمق (bora çıkmak, “to burst out (of a storm)”)
Related terms
[edit]- بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: bora
- → Armenian: (Constantinople) պօռա (pōṙa)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]بورا • (bura)
- this place, here
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: bura
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bora2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 651
- Eren, Hasan (1999) “bora”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 57b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bora”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393