bors

English

Noun

bors

  1. plural of bor

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch borst, from Middle Dutch borst, from Old Dutch brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (to swell, blow, inflate).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ(ː)rs/
  • (file)

Noun

bors (plural borste, diminutive borsie)

  1. chest
  2. breast

Albanian

Një bors mashkullor.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From borë (snow) (var. vdor, zborë).

Noun

bors m (plural borsa, definite borsi, definite plural borsat)

  1. chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
    Synonyms: avdos, borës

Declension

Danish

Noun

bors n

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
  2. indefinite genitive plural of bor

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Chuvash пӑрӑҫ (părăś), dialectal Ottoman Turkish برج (burc), from an Iranian language[1] (see Persian مرچ (murč) for more).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈborʃ]
  • Hyphenation: bors
  • Rhymes: -orʃ

Noun

bors (plural borsok)

  1. pepper (spice)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Possessive forms of bors
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. borsom borsaim
2nd person sing. borsod borsaid
3rd person sing. borsa borsai
1st person plural borsunk borsaink
2nd person plural borsotok borsaitok
3rd person plural borsuk borsaik

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

References

  1. bors in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • bors in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • bors in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
  • Róna-Tas, András ((Can we date this quote?)) “A Hungarian word of Turkic origin coming from India: bors ‘pepper’”, in (please provide the title of the work), archived from the original on 2023-11-04

Icelandic

Noun

bors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor

Latvian

Etymology

From the stem of boraks.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bɔːrs]
(file)

Noun

Chemical element
B
Previous: berilijs (Be)
Next: ogleklis (C)

bors m (1st declension)

  1. boron (chemical element, a metalloid, with atomic number 5)
    bora savienojumiboron compounds
    bora mēslojumsboron fertilizers

Declension

Swedish

Noun

bors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of bor
  2. indefinite genitive plural of bo

Anagrams

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