bors

See also: Bors, BORs, borš, borș, Borș, boŗš, bōrs, börs, børs, and børs'

English

Noun

bors

1. plural of bor

Anagrams

• Bros., ORBs, Sorb, bros, bros., orbs, robs, sorb

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch borst, from Middle Dutch borst, from Old Dutch brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ(ː)rs/

• Audio:

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Noun

bors (plural borste, diminutive borsie)

1. chest
2. breast

Albanian

Një bors mashkullor.

Alternative forms

• borës
• zborak
• vdors, vdorsk, vdorskë

Etymology

From borë (“snow”) (var. vdor, zborë).

Noun

bors m (plural borsa, definite borsi, definite plural borsat)

1. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)

   Synonyms: avdos, borës

Declension

Declension of bors

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bors	borsi	borsa	borsat
accusative		borsin
dative	borsi	borsit	borsave	borsave
ablative			borsash

Danish

Noun

bors n

1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
2. indefinite genitive plural of bor

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash пӑрӑҫ (părăś), dialectal Ottoman Turkish برج (burc), from an Iranian language (see Persian مرچ (murč) for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈborʃ]
• Hyphenation: bors
• Rhymes: -orʃ

Noun

bors (plural borsok)

1. pepper (spice)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	bors	borsok
accusative	borsot	borsokat
dative	borsnak	borsoknak
instrumental	borssal	borsokkal
causal-final	borsért	borsokért
translative	borssá	borsokká
terminative	borsig	borsokig
essive-formal	borsként	borsokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	borsban	borsokban
superessive	borson	borsokon
adessive	borsnál	borsoknál
illative	borsba	borsokba
sublative	borsra	borsokra
allative	borshoz	borsokhoz
elative	borsból	borsokból
delative	borsról	borsokról
ablative	borstól	borsoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	borsé	borsoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	borséi	borsokéi

Possessive forms of bors

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	borsom	borsaim
2nd person sing.	borsod	borsaid
3rd person sing.	borsa	borsai
1st person plural	borsunk	borsaink
2nd person plural	borsotok	borsaitok
3rd person plural	borsuk	borsaik

Derived terms

• borsika
• borsos
• borsoz

(Compound words):

• borsmenta
• feketebors

(Expressions):

• borsot tör az orra alá
• kicsi a bors, de erős

Further reading

• bors in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• bors in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
• Róna-Tas, András ((Can we date this quote?)) “A Hungarian word of Turkic origin coming from India: bors ‘pepper’”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 2020-12-01

Icelandic

Noun

bors

1. indefinite genitive singular of bor

Latvian

Etymology

From the stem of boraks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɔːrs]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Chemical element
B
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bors m (1st declension)

1. boron (chemical element, a metalloid, with atomic number 5)

   bora savienojumi ― boron compounds

   bora mēslojums ― boron fertilizers

Declension

Declension of bors (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	bors	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	bora	—
dative (datīvs)	boram	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	boru	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	boru	—
locative (lokatīvs)	borā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	bor	—

Swedish

Noun

bors

1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
2. indefinite genitive plural of bo

Anagrams

• bros