bocor
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
bòkò
bokor
=== Etymology ===
From Haitian Creole bòkò, from Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ (“soothsayer”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(General American) IPA(key): /boʊˈkoɹ/
=== Noun ===
bocor (plural bocors)
(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.
1995, Elizabeth McAlister, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 305:
A bòkò is an entrepreneur, and has a reputation as a man who will “work with both hands,” that is, for healing and revenge.
=== Anagrams ===
Corbo
== Indonesian ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Malay بوچور (bocor), from Sundanese [Term?] (“to flow”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈbo.t͡ʃor]
Hyphenation: bo‧cor
=== Verb ===
bocor
to be leaky; to leak
perahu bocor ― leaky boat
atap bocor ― leaky roof
==== Conjugation ====
=== Adjective ===
bocor (superlative terbocor)
leaky
=== Derived terms ===
=== Related terms ===
=== Further reading ===
“bocor”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016