Born vs Bora - What's the difference?
born | bora |
; given birth to.
Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
* 1942 , Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
(Geordie) With fire.
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:
As nouns the difference between born and bora
is that born is while bora is bora.born
English
(wikipedia born)Etymology 1
From the verb (term).Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born' sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a ' born scoundrel.
Derived terms
* born in a barn * born leader * born loser * born killer * born-again * firstborn * highborn * low-born * newborn * stillborn * twice-bornSee also
* borneEtymology 2
Dialectal variant of (burn).References
*Verb
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*Statistics
*bora
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* BoraSynonyms
* burbungQuotations
* 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
(-)- When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?