bora.
An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Meaning & usage
An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
Where this word comes from
From Gamilaraay būru.
A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
Where this word comes from
Either from Serbo-Croatian bura (“downslope wind, northeast or ENE wind”), or from a dialectal form of Italian borea (“north wind”) from Latin Boreās.
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