boar

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

English

Sus scrofa (1)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (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/

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

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.

Coordinate terms

• sow

Derived terms

• barling
• boarfish
• boarhide
• boarhound
• boarish
• boarlike
• boar-spear
• boar taint
• hedgy-boar
• herd boar
• useless as tits on a boar hog
• wereboar
• wild boar

 

Translations

wild boar — see wild boar

male pig

• Arabic: خِنْزِير m (ḵinzīr)

  Egyptian Arabic: خنزير m (xanziir)

• Armenian: արու խոզ (aru xoz)
• Asturian: gochu (ast)
• Belarusian: каба́н m (kabán)
• Bikol Central: butakal
• Bulgarian: шопар (bg) m (šopar)
• Burmese: ဝက်ထီး (my) (wakhti:)
• Catalan: verro (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公豬 / 公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū), 公豬 / 公猪 (zh) (gōngzhū)

• Czech: kanec (cs) m
• Danish: orne (da), galt (da) (castrated)
• Dutch: beer (nl), mannetjesvarken
• Egyptian: (rrj)
• Esperanto: virporko, porkiĉo
• Finnish: karju (fi)
• French: verrat (fr) m
• Friulian: viru
• Galician: cocho (gl) m
• Georgian: ქოსმენი (kosmeni)
• German: Eber (de) m
• Greek: κάπρος (el) m (kápros)
• Hungarian: kan (hu)
• Icelandic: göltur m
• Ingrian: kullisika
• Interlingua: verre
• Irish: collach m
• Italian: verro (it) m
• Japanese: 雄ブタ (osubuta), 雄豚 (おすぶた, osubuta)
• Khiamniungan Naga: yōhlòu
• Korean: 수퇘지 (ko) (sutwaeji), 멧돼지 (ko) (metdwaeji)
• Kyrgyz: каба́н m (kabán)
• Latgalian: keiļs m
• Latin: verres
• Latvian: kuilis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kuilys (lt) m
• Low German: Beer (nds) m
• Macedonian: крмак m (krmak)
• Maori: tāriana, reiputa (if has tusks), poa
• Norman: véthot m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: galte (no) m (castrated), råne (no) m
• Persian: خوک نر (xukê nar)
• Polish: kaban (pl) m, kiernoz (pl) m, knur (pl) m, odyniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: barrão (pt) m, cachaço (pt) m
• Romanian: vier (ro), mascur (ro) (castrated)
• Romansch: ver, verr m, vier m
• Russian: каба́н (ru) m (kabán), хряк (ru) m (xrjak), бо́ров (ru) m (bórov)
• Sardinian: berre, berri, erri, erre, verre
• Scottish Gaelic: torc m
• Sicilian: canzirru (scn), verru (scn)
• Slovene: merjasec (sl) m
• Spanish: verraco (es) m
• Swedish: galt (sv)
• Tagalog: bulugan
• Tarifit: iref m
• Telugu: పంది (te) (pandi)
• Ukrainian: каба́н (uk) m (kabán)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Old English: ^{(please verify)} bār m, ^{(please verify)} eofor m
• Sardinian: ^{(please verify)} berre m

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)

1. (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)

1. cowherd

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	boar	boarul		boari	boarii
genitive-dative	boar	boarului		boari	boarilor
vocative	boarule			boarilor

Related terms

• bou

See also

• văcar

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. 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): /bɔː/

Noun

boar

1. 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