bora

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
    — Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
  2. 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.
    — When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?

词形变化

boras plural Bora alternative

词源

词源 1
From Gamilaraay būru.
词源 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.
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