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boar

See also: Boar, boâr, bôar, bóar, and -boar

English

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Sus scrofa (1)
 
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Etymology

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From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

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Noun

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boar (plural boars or boar)

  1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
    • 2024 August 24, Stephen Castle, “The Loch Ness Monster Has Company in the Neighborhood: Wild Boars”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.
  2. A male pig.
    • 2000 May 24, Jon Nordheimer, “Hunting for Pigs, And Florida's Past”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.
  3. A male boar (sense 1).
  4. A male bear.
  5. A male guinea pig.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Dutch boer.

Noun

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boar m (definite singular boaren, indefinite plural boarar, definite plural boarane)

  1. (historical) a Boer
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Etymology

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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

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boar m (plural boari)

  1. cowherd

Declension

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Declension of boar
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) boar boarul (niște) boari boarii
genitive/dative (unui) boar boarului (unor) boari boarilor
vocative boarule boarilor
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West Frisian

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

  1. drill, bore

Further reading

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  • “boar”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

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boar

  1. hedgehog

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  • 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
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