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Bora vs Fora - What's the difference?

bora | fora |

As a noun bora

is bora.

As a verb fora is

.

bora

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* Bora

Noun

(en noun)
  • A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
    • Synonyms
    * burbung

    Quotations

    * 1873, William Ridley, Report on Australian Languages and Traditions,'' in ''The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 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, Vol. 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...

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a dialectal form of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 2007, p. 650:
    • When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

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    fora

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Usage notes

    The English plural forums is preferred to the Latin plural fora in normal English usage.Modern English Usage , 2nd Edition, ed. Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford 1968 (article '-um', p.658).

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