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بور

بور

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

Arabic

Adjective

بُور (būr)

  1. fallow, uncultivated
  2. stagnant, waste-
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

بَوَّرَ (bawwara) II, non-past يُبَوِّرُ‎ (yubawwiru)

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

Etymology 3

Noun

بَوْر (bawr) m

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

Etymology 4

Proper noun

بُور (būr) ?

  1. Bor (city in South Sudan)

Persian

Etymology 1

From French.

Noun

بور (bor)

  1. boron

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian bwl (bōr, reddish-brown, bay [horse]). Cognate with Ossetian бур (bur, yellow), Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhru, deep-brown, reddish-brown, tawny) and the Old Armenian loanword բորենի (boreni, hyenea). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰebʰru-, reduplicated from *bʰer- (brown); cognate with Proto-Germanic *bebruz.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Dari بور
Iranian Persian بور
Tajik бӯр (bür)

بور (bur)

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

References

See also
Colors in Persian · رنگ‌ها (rang-hâ) (layout · text)
     سرخ (sorx)      سبز (sabz),
سوز (sowz)
     زرد (zard)      ?      سفید (safid, sefid),
سفی (?)
     زرشکی (zereški)      ?      ?      ?      ?
     ?      آبی (âbi)      نارنجی (nârenji)      خاکستری (xâkestari),
توسی (tusi)
     ?
     سیاه (siyah),
سه (seh)
     بنفش (banafsh)      قهوه‌ای (qahve'i),
بور (bur)
     ?      ?

Uyghur

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bor/

Noun

بور (bor)

  1. a piece of chalk
  2. (geology) Cretaceous period
  3. boron