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別の表記

• Bora

名詞

bora (plural boras)

1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
   • 1873, William Ridley, “Report on Australian Languages and Traditions”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 2:

     Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.

   • 1885, A. L. P. Cameron, “Notes on some Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 14:

     By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...

同意語

• burbung

派生語

• bora ground

語源 2

Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās.

名詞

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.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 650:

     When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

アナグラム

• Abor, Baro, baro-, boar, broa