bora

[ bawr-uh, bohr-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Meteorology.

(on the Adriatic coasts) a violent, dry, cold wind blowing from the north or northeast.

bora

[ bawr-uh, bohr-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, Australian.

an Australian Aboriginal initiation rite in which boys are accepted into the tribe as men.

bora

/ ˈbɔːrə /

bora

/ ˈbɔːrə /

sometimes capital a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter

Origin of bora¹

1860–65; < Upper Italian, variant of Italian borea Boreas ( def )

Origin of bora²

First recorded in 1865–70, bora is from the Kamilaroi word būru “initiation rite, initiation belt”

Origin of bora¹

from a native Australian language

Origin of bora²

C19: from Italian (Venetian dialect), from Latin borēas the north wind

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