بور

See also: ثور, توژ, پور, پوز, بوز, and تور

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ب و ر (b w r)
2 terms

Compare بَارَ (bāra, “to lie fallow”).

Adjective

بُور • (būr)

1. fallow, uncultivated
2. stagnant, waste-

Declension

Declension of adjective بُور (būr)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	بُور būr	الْبُور al-būr	بُورَة būra	الْبُورَة al-būra
Nominative	بُورٌ būrun	الْبُورُ al-būru	بُورَةٌ būratun	الْبُورَةُ al-būratu
Accusative	بُورًا būran	الْبُورَ al-būra	بُورَةً būratan	الْبُورَةَ al-būrata
Genitive	بُورٍ būrin	الْبُورِ al-būri	بُورَةٍ būratin	الْبُورَةِ al-būrati
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	بُورَيْن būrayn	الْبُورَيْن al-būrayn	بُورَتَيْن būratayn	الْبُورَتَيْن al-būratayn
Nominative	بُورَانِ būrāni	الْبُورَانِ al-būrāni	بُورَتَانِ būratāni	الْبُورَتَانِ al-būratāni
Accusative	بُورَيْنِ būrayni	الْبُورَيْنِ al-būrayni	بُورَتَيْنِ būratayni	الْبُورَتَيْنِ al-būratayni
Genitive	بُورَيْنِ būrayni	الْبُورَيْنِ al-būrayni	بُورَتَيْنِ būratayni	الْبُورَتَيْنِ al-būratayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	plural unknown		sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	? ?	? ?	بُورَات būrāt	الْبُورَات al-būrāt
Nominative	? ?	? ?	بُورَاتٌ būrātun	الْبُورَاتُ al-būrātu
Accusative	? ?	? ?	بُورَاتٍ būrātin	الْبُورَاتِ al-būrāti
Genitive	? ?	? ?	بُورَاتٍ būrātin	الْبُورَاتِ al-būrāti

Etymology 2

Verb

1. to let lie fallow, to leave uncultivated, to leave unsown
2. to make unprofitable, to make useless

Etymology 3

Noun

بَوْر • (bawr) m

1. verbal noun of بَارَ (bāra) (form I)

Declension

Declension of noun بَوْر (bawr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	بَوْر bawr	الْبَوْر al-bawr	بَوْر bawr
Nominative	بَوْرٌ bawrun	الْبَوْرُ al-bawru	بَوْرُ bawru
Accusative	بَوْرًا bawran	الْبَوْرَ al-bawra	بَوْرَ bawra
Genitive	بَوْرٍ bawrin	الْبَوْرِ al-bawri	بَوْرِ bawri

Etymology 4

Proper noun

بُور • (būr) ?

1. Bor (a city in South Sudan)

Etymology 5

From French port.

Noun

بُور • (būr)

1. Synonym of مَرْفَأ (marfaʔ, “port, harbor”) used only in place names

Derived terms

• بُورْسَعِيد (būrsaʕīd, “Port Said”)
• بُور سُودَان (būr sūdān, “Port Sudan”)

Khalaj

Adjective

بور (bûor)

1. Arabic spelling of bûor (“nut-brown”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Arabic بُور (būr).

Adjective

بور • (bur)

1. (of land) unfit for cultivation; waste-
2. useless

Etymology 2

From Persian بور.

Adjective

بور • (bur)

1. roan

Etymology 3

From French bore.

Noun

بور • (bor)

1. boron

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393

Persian

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bwl /⁠bōr⁠/, “reddish-brown, bay [horse]”). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, “yellow”), Northern Kurdish bor (“grey”) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, “hyena”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [boːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [boːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [boːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [boːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bʊːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [buːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɵɾ]

Readings
Classical reading?	bōr
Dari reading?	bōr
Iranian reading?	bur
Tajik reading?	bür

Adjective

Dari	بور
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бӯр

بور • (bur)

1. fair, blonde
2. reddish brown, bay
3. (dialectal) brown

Descendants

• → Khalaj: bûor

See also

Colors, Iranian Persian

Colors in Persian · رَنْگ‌هَا (rang-hâ) (layout · text)

سِفید (sefid)	خَاکِسْتَری (xâkestari), توسی (tusi)	سِیَاه (siyâh), مِشْکی (meški)
سُرْخ (sorx), قِرْمِز (ğermez); زِرِشْکی (zereški)	نَارِنْجی (nârenji); قَهْوِه‌ای (ğahve-i), بور (bur)	زَرْد (zard); کِرِم (kerem)
سَبْزِ لیمویی (sabz-e limuyi)	سَبْز (sabz)
آبیِ دَرْیَایی (âbi-ye daryâyi); سَبْزِ دودی (sabz-e dudi), فیروزِه‌ای (firuze-i)	لَاجْوَرْدی (lâjvardi)	آبی (âbi), سُرْمِه‌ای (sorme-i)
بَنَفْش (banafš); نیلی (nili)	سُرْخَابی (sorxâbi); اَرْغَوَانی (arğavâni)	صورَتی (surati)

Colors, Dari Persian

Colors in Persian · رَنْگ‌هَا (rang-hā) (layout · text)

سَفید (safēd)	خَاکِسْتَرِی (xākistarī), فولَادِی (fōlādī)	سِیَاه (siyāh), مُشْکِی (muškī)
سُرْخ (surx); قِرْمِزِی (qirmizī)	نَارَنْجِی (nāranjī); نَسْوَارِی (naswārī), بور (bōr), قَهْوَه‌یِی (qahwa-yī)	زَرْد (zard); کِرِیمِی (kirīmī)
سَبْزِ لِیمُویِی (sabz-i līmūyī)	سَبْز (sabz)	سَبْزِ آبِی (sabz-i ābī)
آبِیِ دَرْیَایِی (ābī-yi daryāyī); سَبْزِ دُودِی (sabz-i dūdī), فیروزَه‌یِی (fērōza-yī)	آسْمَانِی (āsmānī)	آبِی (ābī), آبِیِ تِیرَه (ābī-yi tīra)
بِنَفْش (binafš); نِیلِی (nīlī)	سُرْخَابِی (surxābī); اَرْغَوَانِی (arğawānī), بَانْجَانِی (bānjānī)	گُلَابِی (gulābī)

Further reading

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بور”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “bōr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 19
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 189
• Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 152

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French.

Noun

بور • (bor)

1. boron

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from English bore.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /boːɾ/

Adjective

بور • (bor) (Hindi spelling बोर)

1. bored

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu بور (bōr).

Adjective

بور (bōr) (noun)

1. suffering from boredom

Uyghur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bor/

Etymology 1

From Chagatai بور (bor), from Proto-Turkic *bōr. Cognates with Bashkir бур (bur), Kazakh бор (bor), Tatar акбур (aqbur), aqbur, Uzbek boʻr.

Noun

بور • (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

1. chalk

   Synonym: ئاقبور (aqbor)

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: بېرىللىي (bërilliy) (Be)
Next: كاربون (karbon) (C)

From Russian бор (bor).

Noun

بور • (bor) (plural بورلار (borlar))

1. (chemistry) boron

Further reading

• Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN