You can make 7 words from bor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of bor
bor obr bro rbo orb rob
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word bor. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in bor.
Definitions and meaning of bor
bor
Etymology
Possibly from Old Englishġebūr(“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”)
Noun
bor (pluralbors)
(Norfolk) boy
References
Anagrams
ORB, ROB, Rob, bro, bro., orb, rob
Albanian
Noun
borm
boron
Catalan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)[ˈbɔr]
Noun
borm (uncountable)
boron
Derived terms
borat
bòric
borur
Further reading
“bor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“bor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“bor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“bor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cimbrian
Preposition
bor
Unstressed form ofbòr(“for”).
Czech
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Czechbor, from Proto-Slavic*borъ. Because in Slovak and Polish dialects it means "marsh", it is sometimes associated with Proto-Slavic*bara, meaning the same. More probably it is connected with Proto-Indo-European*bʰor-u-. Compare also borůvka.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbor]
Rhymes: -or
Noun
borm inan
wood consisting of pines, pine wood
1834, František Škroup, “Kde domov můj” (national anthem of the Czech Republic). Lyrics by Josef Kajetán Tyl:
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from GermanBor, which is a shortened form of Borax derived from Medieval Latinborax, from Arabicبورق(“būraq”), from Persianبوره(“būrah”).
Alternative forms
bór
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈboːr]
Rhymes: -oːr
Noun
borm inan
boron
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
bor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
bor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Anagrams
obr
rob
Danish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /boːr/, [b̥oɐ̯ˀ]
Rhymes: -oːɐ̯
Etymology 1
From the stem of borax.
Noun
born (singular definiteboret, not used in plural form)
boron (chemical element)
Etymology 2
From Old Norseborr.
Noun
born (singular definiteboret, plural indefinitebor)
drill
gimlet, auger
Inflection
Etymology 3
See bo
Verb
bor
present of bo
Etymology 4
See bore
Verb
bor
imperative of bore
Hungarian
Etymology
From a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare Cuman, Kipchak, Uyghur [script needed] (bor, “wine”), ultimately from Middle Persianbōr(“reddish-brown”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰerH-(“brown”). Compare Ossetianбур(bur, “yellow”), Northern Kurdishbor(“grey”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈbor]
Rhymes: -or
Noun
bor (pluralborok)
wine (an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of grapes)
wine (an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting the juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable)
(figuratively) wine (intoxication caused by wine)
A bor beszél belőle. ― It must be the wine. (literally, “The wine is talking out of him/her.”)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
bor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
bor in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
bor (first-person possessiveborku, second-person possessivebormu, third-person possessivebornya)
drill, drill bit
Synonyms:gurdi, jara
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Englishboard, from Proto-West Germanic*bord, from Proto-Germanic*burdą(“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European*bʰerdʰ-(“to cut”). Cognate of Dutchbord.
Noun
bor (first-person possessiveborku, second-person possessivebormu, third-person possessivebornya)
(colloquial) board
Synonym:papan
Further reading
“bor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Alternative forms
boor, bore, boore
(Northern ME)bar, bare, bayre
Etymology
From Old Englishbār, from Proto-West Germanic*bair.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /bɔːr/
(Northern ME, Early ME) IPA(key): /bɑːr/
Noun
bor (pluralbores)
A wild or uncastrated pig; a boar.
The meat or flesh of a boar.
(figurative) A rough and tough individual.
(rare, heraldic) A heraldic image of a boar.
Descendants
English: boar
Scots: bair
Yola: boar
References
“bōr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High Germanpor; from the root of Old High Germanberan(“to bear, carry”).
Noun
bor (m or f)
height, elevation
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
bor in M. Lexer, Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch.
Northern Kurdish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic*bor.
Adjective
bor
grey
Etymology 2
Noun
bor?
horse
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /buːr/
Etymology 1
A shortening of boraks
Noun
born (definite singularboret, uncountable)
boron (chemical element, symbolB)
Derived terms
borat
borsyre
Etymology 2
From Old Norseborr.
Noun
born (definite singularboret, indefinite pluralbor, definite pluralboraorborene)