BOOR

Boor
Native toChad
Regionsouth
100 (1999)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
  • Chadic
    • East Chadic
      • East Chadic A
        • Miltu (A.1.2)
          • Boor
Language codes
ISO 639-3bvf
Glottologboor1242[2]

Boor (also known as Bwara, Damraw) is an endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southern Chad.[1] The language has less than 100 native speakers worldwide.[3]

The Boor is a play written by Anton Chekhov. This English translation was published in Contemporary One-Act Plays. Bobotie ba-boor-tea is the national dish of South Africa. A type of meat pie that incorporates curried meat, fruit, and a delicious egg-based topping.

Boor: 1 n a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement Synonyms: Goth, barbarian, churl, peasant, tike, tyke Type of: disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. Kayla Boor, 29, died in hospital yesterday after she was hit by debris from a building site crane in Burdett Spy's girl 'improving' THE daughter of a former Russian double agent poisoned alongside her father in a nerve agent attack is now stable in hospital, doctors said. 5MINUTE BRIEFING.

Regions where the language is spoken include southern Chad, the Bousso Subprefecture, Sarh Rural Subprefecture, and in and around the Dumraw (Dumrao) village on the north bank of the Chari River. Dumrao is approximately 15 kilometers north of Gori.[4]

Boor was documented by Florian Lionnet, Sandrine Loncke, and Remadji Hoinathy in 2012.[4]

Due to the locations of the regions in which the language is spoken, native speakers of Boor commonly speak the Bagirmi language as well.[5]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ abBoor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). 'Boor'. Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ^'Endangered Languages Project'. endangeredlanguages.com. Retrieved 2017-02-10.
  4. ^ abLionnet, Florian. Chadic languages.
  5. ^'Ethnologue 14 report for language code:BVF'. archive.ethnologue.com. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-10.


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Definitions

Boor definition

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
  • noun A peasant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A countryman; a peasant; a rustic; a clown; particularly, a Dutch or German peasant.
  • noun Hence One who is rude in manners, or illiterate; a clown; a clownish person.
  • noun [capitalized] Same as Boer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
  • noun A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer.
  • noun A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A peasant.
  • noun A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent
  • noun A yokel, country bumpkin,
  • noun An uncultured person

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

Boorish Definition

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Dutch boer, from Middle Dutch gheboer; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.]

Boor Definition

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Examples

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  • It's a reversal of the premise of 'Amadeus,' in which the boor is the genius and the court favorite a composer possessing more in the way of political skill than musical gifts.

  • Stanley, for example, was often called a boor and a brute when in reality he was merely hiding a fine nature behind the armour necessary to resist native imposition and worse.

  • Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man.

  • According to this argument based on self-assertive aggressiveness, the boor was the man possessed of a strong personality, while the gentleman was relatively 'impersonal.' Avorion cheats.

  • I hear if you watch “Passion of the Christ”, you turn into the kind of boor that says that all sex should be within a context of looking to get married and have babies.

  • I hear if you watch “Passion of the Christ”, you turn into the kind of boor that says that all sex should be within a context of looking to get married and have babies.

  • Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a 'boor' who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of 'civility and clear speaking' (his words).

  • Will calls Webb a 'boor' and a 'pompous poseur' (two phrases that might have popped into Will's mind while shaving in the mirror that morning) and asserts Webb has 'patent disrespect for the presidency'.

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  • It is only a 'boor Fight songs: the music of team fortress 2 download free. full version. ' who seeks to impose his own hobbies and interests upon a stranger, disregarding entirely the presumable likes and dislikes of the latter.

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