bora

Meanings

1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.

1. 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.

1. An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.

1. A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.

1. Alternative form of Bohra.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Gamilaraay būru.