boar

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

• (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 (pour–poor merger)

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.

• sow

• 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

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.

boar m (plural boari)

1. cowherd

• bou

• văcar

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boar c (plural boaren, diminutive boarke)

1. drill, bore

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔː/

boar

1. hedgehog

• 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