"bora" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: boras [plural]
Etymology: From Gamilaraay būru. Etymology templates: {{der|en|kld|būru}} Gamilaraay būru Head templates: {{en-noun}} bora (plural boras)
  1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales. Categories (topical): Wind Synonyms: burbung, Bora Derived forms: bora ground
    Sense id: en-bora-en-noun-HwloyfwQ Disambiguation of Wind: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Friulian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Venetian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Friulian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Venetian translations: 83 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sh|bura||downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind}} Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), {{der|en|it|borea||north wind}} Italian borea (“north wind”), {{der|en|la|Boreās}} Latin Boreās Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} bora
  1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world. Categories (topical): Wind Translations (wind): bura [feminine] (Croatian), bora (Finnish), buere [feminine] (Friulian), bure [feminine] (Friulian), bóra (Hungarian), bora [feminine] (Italian), bora (Malay), bora [feminine] (Polish), burja [feminine] (Slovene), bora [feminine] (Venetian)
    Sense id: en-bora-en-noun-o~jscSyi Disambiguation of Wind: 51 49
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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