بورا

بوْرا (bôra)

1. Arabic spelling of bôra (“here”)

بورا

1. Jawi spelling of bura

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *bora- (“north wind; to snow heavily”), whence بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”). Cognate with Bashkir буран (buran), Crimean Tatar boran, Kazakh боран (boran) and Turkmen boran. Alternatively, it could be a wanderwort related to Italian bora and Greek μπόρα (bóra).

• بوره (bora)

بورا • (bora)

1. squall, tempest, a storm with severe winds

   Synonym: فورطنه (furtuna, fırtına)

2. (figuratively) tremendous scolding, flood of vituperation

• بوراغان (burağan, “whirlwind”)

• Turkish: bora
• → Armenian: (Constantinople) պօռա (pōṙa)

بورا • (bura)

1. this place, here

• Turkish: bura

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bora2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 651
• Eren, Hasan (1999) “bora”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 57b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بورا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 282
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bora”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بورا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393