Boar

Pronunciation

• enPR: bôr, IPA: /bɔːɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
• Homophones: boor, bore

Origin

Middle English boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-Germanic *baizaz (compare Dutch beer, dialectal German Bär), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoidʰ-s-o (compare Lithuanian baĩsas 'terrible apparition', Old Church Slavonic бѣсъ 'demon'), enlargement of *bʰoidʰ-. More at bad.

Full definition of boar

Noun

1. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
2. A male pig.

Coordinate terms

• sow

Derived terms

• boar-spear
• herd boar

Anagrams

• bora