boor

See also: Boor and bòòr

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”). Doublet of Boer and bower (“peasant, farmer”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bʊə/
- (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔː/
(General American) enPR: bo͝or, IPA^(key): /bʊɹ/
- (cure–force merger) IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Homophones: Boer, boar (cure–force merger), bore (cure–force merger), Bohr (cure–force merger)

Noun

boor (plural boors)

A peasant.
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
An uncultured person.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii], line 155:
  Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.
- 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107 [1]:
  I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.

Related terms

boorish
boorishly
boorishness

Translations

a peasant

Bulgarian: селянин (bg) m (seljanin)
Dutch: boer (nl) m or f
French: rustre (fr)
Italian: cafone (it) m, bifolco (it) m, becero (it) m, buzzurro (it) m, burino (it)
Romanian: țăran (ro) m
Spanish: huaso (es) m (Chile)
Turkish: köylü (tr)

a Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent

Bulgarian: бур m (bur)
Esperanto: buro
Italian: boero (it) m
Polish: Bur (pl) m

a yokel

Czech: buran (cs) m
French: plouc (fr) m
Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
Romanian: țăran (ro) m, bădăran (ro) m, mojic (ro) m
Spanish: paleto m

an uncultured person

Bulgarian: грубиян (bg) m (grubijan)
Czech: buran (cs) m, neotesanec (cs) m, primitiv (cs) m
Finnish: jyväjemmari (fi) (derogatory), moukka (fi)
French: beauf (fr) m, mufle (fr) m, pignouf (fr) m, plouc (fr) m, rustre (fr) m
Galician: pailán, pailaroco, paifoco (gl), paiolo (gl), paduán (gl), badoco
Greek: αγροίκος (el) m (agroíkos)
Irish: abhlóir m, amhlán m
Italian: cafone (it) m
Latin: rupex m
Persian: ارنئوت‎ (arnaut)
Polish: prostak (pl) m, cham (pl) m
Portuguese: rústico (pt) m
Romanian: necioplit (ro) m, incult (ro) m
Russian: хам (ru) m (xam), ха́мка (ru) f (xámka), грубия́н (ru) m (grubiján), грубия́нка (ru) f (grubijánka), мужи́к (ru) m (mužík)
Spanish: patán (es) m, cateto (es) m, paleto m
Swedish: tölp (sv) c, bonnläpp c
Turkish: hödük (tr), kıro (tr) (informal)
Volapük: (♂♀) grobälan (vo), (♂) higrobälan, (♀) jigrobälan

References

→OCLC

Anagrams

-boro, Boro, OBOR, boro, boro-, broo, robo, robo-

Afar

Etymology

From French port.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈboːɾ/

Hyphenation: boor

Noun

bóor m

port, harbour

References

Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 52

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʊər/
audio (file)

Etymology 1

From Dutch boor, from Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor (plural bore, diminutive boortjie)

drill

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: berillium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

From Dutch boor, from borium.

Noun

boor (uncountable)

boron

Synonyms

borium

Etymology 3

From Dutch boren.

Verb

boor (present boor, present participle borende, past participle geboor)

to drill

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /boːr/
audio (file)
Hyphenation: boor
Rhymes: -oːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bore.

Noun

boor f (plural boren, diminutive boortje n)

drill

Derived terms

boorder
boren
boorapparaat
booras
boorbeitel
boorbuis
booreiland
boorgat
boorhelper
boorkever
boorkop
boorplatform

Descendants

Afrikaans: boor
→ Aukan: boo
→ Caribbean Hindustani: boro
→ Caribbean Javanese: bur
→ Indonesian: bor
→ Papiamentu: bor, boor
→ Sranan Tongo: boro, boor
- → Saramaccan: bolú

Etymology 2

Chemical element
B
Previous: beryllium (Be)
Next: koolstof (C)

Dutchification of borium.

Noun

boor n (uncountable)

boron

Synonyms

borium

Derived terms

boorwater
boorzalf
boorzuur

Related terms

borax

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boor

first-person singular present indicative of boren
imperative of boren

Estonian

Chemical element
B
Previous: berüllium (Be)
Next: süsinik (C)

Noun

boor (genitive boori, partitive boori)

boron

Declension

Declension of boor (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	boor	boorid
genitive	boori	booride
partitive	boori	boore / boorisid
illative	boori / boorisse	booridesse / booresse
inessive	booris	boorides / boores
elative	boorist	booridest / boorest
allative	boorile	booridele / boorele
adessive	booril	booridel / boorel
ablative	boorilt	booridelt / boorelt
translative	booriks	boorideks / booreks
terminative	boorini	boorideni
essive	boorina	booridena
abessive	boorita	boorideta
comitative	booriga	booridega

Latin

Verb

boor

first-person singular present passive indicative of boō

Middle English

Noun

boor

Alternative form of bor

Southwestern Dinka

Noun

boor (plural booth)

goat

References

Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

Swedish

Noun

boor

indefinite plural of boa.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English povre, from Old French povre, from Latin pauper.

Adjective

boor

poor

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 27

[Selous1905-1] →OCLC