boar

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *bairaz (whence also Dutch beer, obsolete dialectal German Bär (“boar”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas (“terrible apparition”), Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ (běsŭ, “demon”)), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.

• (General American) enPR: bôr, IPA^(key): /bɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bô, IPA^(key): /bɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: bōr, IPA^(key): /bo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /boə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: bore, Bohr, boor (accents with the pour–poor merger)

boar (plural boars or boar)

1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
2. A male pig.

• sow

• boar-spear
• herd boar

• hog
• pig
• swine

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, bora, bora-, broa

From Dutch boer

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

1. (historical) a Boer

• afrikandar

• boer (Bokmål)

• “boar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bouar

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.

boar m (plural boari)

1. cowherd

• bou

• văcar

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. drill, bore

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

boar

1. hedgehog

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)