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bori

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bori"

Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (borı, “horn; natural trumpet”)[1]

Noun

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bori f (plural bori)

  1. bugle
  2. trumpet

Declension

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Declension of bori
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bori boria bori boritë
accusative borinë
dative borie borisë borive borive
ablative borish

References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bori”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 87

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From English bore and German bohren.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbori]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ori
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ri

Verb

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bori (present boras, past boris, future boros, conditional borus, volitive boru)

  1. to bore (make a hole in)
  2. to drill

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bori
present past future
singular plural singular plural singular plural
tense boras boris boros
active participle boranta borantaj borinta borintaj boronta borontaj
acc. borantan borantajn borintan borintajn borontan borontajn
passive participle borata borataj borita boritaj borota borotaj
acc. boratan boratajn boritan boritajn borotan borotajn
nominal active participle boranto borantoj borinto borintoj boronto borontoj
acc. boranton borantojn borinton borintojn boronton borontojn
nominal passive participle borato boratoj borito boritoj boroto borotoj
acc. boraton boratojn boriton boritojn boroton borotojn
adverbial active participle borante borinte boronte
adverbial passive participle borate borite borote
infinitive bori imperative boru conditional borus

Derived terms

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  • trabori (“to pierce, puncture”)

Hausa

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Practitioners of bori in the roles of various spirits (photographed in 1914).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bòː.ɽíː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [bòː.ɽíː]

Noun

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bṑrī m (possessed form bṑrin)

  1. animistic spirit possession religion

Icelandic

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Verb

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bori

  1. first-person singular active present subjunctive of bora
  2. third-person singular active present subjunctive of bora
  3. third-person plural active present subjunctive of bora

Italian

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Verb

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bori

  1. inflection of boriarsi:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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Participle

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bori

  1. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of boren
  2. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of boren

Verb

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bori

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of bera

Etymology 2

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Noun

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bori n

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of bor

Romani

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Etymology

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Three etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀳𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀆 (vahuliā),[1] from Sanskrit वधूटी (vadhūṭī).[1][2]
  2. Inherited from Sanskrit व्यवहारिका (vyavahārikā, “female servant”).[2][3]
  3. Borrowed from Iranian.[4]

Noun

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bori f (nominative plural borǎ)

  1. bride,[1][5] newly-wed woman[5]
  2. daughter-in-law[1][5][6]
  3. sister-in-law[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “borí”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 34b
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vadhūṭī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 656
  3. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vyavahārikā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 705
  4. ^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 26
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bor/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 90b-91a
  6. ^ Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “bori”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

Further reading

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  • Milena Hübschmannová (2002 September) “Bori (Daughter in law)”, in ROMBASE Cultural Database‎[2], Prague, archived from the original on 19 October 2021
  • Carol Silverman (2012 May) “Transnational Celebrations”, in Romani Routes: Cultural Politics & Balkan Music in Diaspora‎[3], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 85
  • “Bori”, in RomArchive‎[4], (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on October 20, 2021

Romanian

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Verb

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a bori (third-person singular present borie, past participle borit) 4th conjugation

  1. Obsolete form of borî.

Conjugation

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    conjugation of bori (fourth conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a bori
gerund borind
past participle borit
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present bor bori bore borim boriți bor
imperfect boream boreai borea boream boreați boreau
simple perfect borii boriși bori borirăm borirăți boriră
pluperfect borisem boriseși borise boriserăm boriserăți boriseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să bor să bori să boră să borim să boriți să boră
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative bore boriți
negative nu bori nu boriți

References

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  • bori in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From English boil.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bori

  1. to cook
    • 2002, “A dei di mi bron misrefi”, in SIL - Languages of Suriname‎[5]:
      A ben de so taki wan dei mi mama ben bori okro.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to boil

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Dutch: borie

Ternate

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bori

Etymology

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Cognate with Galela bori, Tobelo bori, Pagu bori, all possibly loans from Ternate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bori

  1. the plant Anamirta cocculus; its seeds are crushed to make a fish poison

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Makian

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Etymology

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Compare East Makian bolit (“to sharpen”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bori

  1. (transitive) to sharpen

Conjugation

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Conjugation of bori (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tobori mobori abori
2nd person nobori fobori
3rd person inanimate ibori dobori
animate
imperative nobori, bori fobori, bori

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[6], Pacific linguistics
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