boer

See also: Appendix:Variations of "boer"

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

1. A farmer; peasant.
2. (chess) A pawn; least valuable piece in chess.

   Synonym: pion

Derived terms

• Boer

Descendants

• → English: Boer

Etymology 2

From Dutch boeren.

Verb

boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer)

1. To farm.
2. To continuously encounter someone at a specific place

   Hy boer daar by haar huis.

   He is always there at her house.

3. To stay; to sojourn; to linger

   Hy't die heel middag by daardie meisie geboer.

   He stayed over at that girl['s place] the whole afternoon.

   Moenie op 'n vraag boer nie.

   Don't linger on a question.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːər/, [ˈb̥oːˀɐ]

Etymology 1

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

1. A Boer.

Inflection

Declension of boer

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	boer	boeren	boere	boerne
genitive	boers	boerens	boeres	boernes

Further reading

• boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

boer

1. indefinite plural of bo

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

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• Hyphenation: boer
• Rhymes: -ur
• Homophone: Boer

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -ū- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English būr, ġebūr (whence English bower) and Old High German būr (whence German Bauer).

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin)

1. a (male) farmer, peasant

   Synonym: bouwman

   Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder

2. a boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic

   Synonym: boerenpummel

3. (in compounds) a merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
4. a jack (playing card)

Alternative forms

• bouwer

Derived terms

• aardappelboer
• bioboer
• Boer
• boerachtig
• boerderij
• boeren
• boerenbedrieger
• boerenbedrog
• boerenbond
• boerenbrood
• boerendeur
• boerenfluit
• boerengat
• boerenjaar
• boerenjongen
• boerenkaas
• boerenkinkel
• boerenknecht
• boerenkool
• boerenland
• boerenlatijn
• boerenlul
• boerenmarkt
• boerenomelet
• boerenplaats
• boerenpummel
• boerenslimheid
• boerenstand
• boerenstiel
• boerenverstand
• boerenworst
• boerenzoon
• boerenzwaluw
• boers
• boerte
• groenteboer
• hartenboer
• herenboer
• herenboerderij
• kaasboer
• keuterboer
• klaverboer
• melkboer
• platenboer
• ruitenboer
• schoppenboer
• veeboer
• visboer
• voddenboer
• wat de boer niet kent, dat eet hij niet

Related terms

• bouwen
• buur

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boer
  • → English: Boer
• Jersey Dutch: bûr
• → English: boor
• → Sranan Tongo: buru
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bulman, bulmang, buru
  • → Dutch: boeroe

Etymology 2

Originally onomatopoeic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen.

Noun

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

1. a belch, a burp

Derived terms

• boeren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boer

1. inflection of boeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Anagrams

• bore
• ober

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.er]

Verb

boer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of boō

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• bor (superseded spelling, but still possible pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German bar (“bare, naked, pure”).

Cognate with German bar, Dutch bar and baar, English bare. The expected Luxembourgish form is *buer; the form bo(e)r requires original length (Middle High German *bār). Probably due to some kind of analogy. Perhaps with Middle High German klār, whence kloer (“clear”), on which it touched in the sense of “pure”; compare older German bar for “apparent, obvious”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboː.ɐ], (less often) [boːʀ], [boˑə̯]
• Homophone: Bor (monosyllabic)

Adjective

boer (masculine boren, neuter boert, not comparable)

1. cash

   Ech hu kee boert Geld dobäi.

   I don’t have any cash money on me.

   Hien huet alles mat bore Schäiner bezuelt.

   He paid everything in cash notes.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Dutch boer.

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne)

1. (historical) A Boer.

Related terms

• afrikander

See also

• boar (Nynorsk)

References

• “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boerar, definite plural boerane)

1. (pre-1987) alternative form of boar

Anagrams

• bore