Where does “bora” come from?
Bora comes from Latin boreas, from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς, a wind deity personifying the north wind.
bora (English): A initiation ceremony for males among the...
Definitions
- A initiation ceremony for males among the...
Ancestry of “bora”, step by step
bora traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Assamese বৰা
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Assamese | বৰা | bara fried ground pulse |
| 2 | Sanskrit | वराह | boar, hog, pig, wild boar; cloud; bull |
| 3 | Sanskrit | अवतार | avatar: descent (especially of a deity from heaven), appearance of any deity upon earth (but more particularly the incarnations of Vishnu in ten principal forms, namely Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Rāma, Krishna, Buddha, and Kalki) |
| 4 | Sanskrit | अव | off, away; down; this |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Háwa | away from, off; down |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ew | away from, off; again |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰe | Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact |