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語源

From 中期英語 bor, boor, from 古期英語 bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA: /bɔː(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA: /boɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA: /bo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /boə/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: bore, Bohr; boor (pour–poor merger)

名詞

boar (plural boars or boar)

1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
   • 2024 August 24, Stephen Castle, “The Loch Ness Monster Has Company in the Neighborhood: Wild Boars”, in The New York Times‎:

     And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.

2. A male pig.
   • 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times‎:

     "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.

3. A male boar (sense 1).
4. A male bear.
5. A male guinea pig.

等位語

• sow

派生語

参考

• hog
• pig
• swine

アナグラム

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa