English Explanatory Dictionary

Borduria

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
  2. A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Syldavia.
name
  1. A village in Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Word forms

Borduria

Etymology

From French Bordurie, from bordure (“border”). Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.

Translations

Azerbaijani: Borduriya Bengali: বর্দুরিয়া Basque: Borduria Breton: Borduria Catalan: Bordúria Chinese: 博爾多利亞 /博尔多利亚 Danish: Bordurien Dutch: Bordurië Esperanto: Bordurio Finnish: Borduria French: Bordurie German: Bordurien Indonesian: Borduria Italian: Borduria Korean: 보르두리아 Norwegian Bokmål: Borduria Persian: بوردوریا Portuguese: Bordúria Russian: Бордурия Spanish: Borduria Swedish: Bordurien Turkish: Bordurya
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