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TURKISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

boru.

duct, pipe, tube

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun[bo.ɾu]
  1. duct, pipe, tube

  2. horn

Where this word comes from

From Ottoman Turkish بورو (boru, “pipe; horn; nonsense”), from Proto-Turkic *bur-gu (“pipe, horn”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (burğu, “horn-shaped wind instrument”), from [script needed] (bur, “to bend, to give a helical shape”), whence also Turkish bur- (“to twist, invert”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.