boar

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA(key): /bɔː(ɹ)/ (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA(key): /boɹ/ (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/ (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /boə/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ) Homophones: bore, Bohr; boor (pour–poor merger) === Noun === boar (plural boars or boar) A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. A male pig. A male boar (sense 1). A male bear. A male guinea pig. ==== Coordinate terms ==== sow ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === hog pig swine === Anagrams === Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From Dutch boer. === Noun === boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane) (historical) a Boer ==== Related terms ==== afrikandar === See also === boer (Bokmål) === References === “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary. == Romanian == === Alternative forms === bouar === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin bovārius or boārius (“cow herder”), from Latin bovārius, boārius (“of cattle”), from bōs. Equivalent to bou +‎ -ar. Compare Aromanian buyear, French bouvier, Italian boaro, Portuguese boieiro, Spanish boyero. === Noun === boar m (plural boari) cowherd ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== bou ==== See also ==== văcar == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Dutch boor. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈboə̯r/ === Noun === boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke) drill, bore ==== Further reading ==== “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɔːr/ === Noun === boar hedgehog === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 27