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bour

“bour” is a Romanian word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. aurochs (Bos primigenius)
  2. wild bull
  3. wisent (Bison bonasus)
  4. the old emblem of Moldavia (with the head of a wisent)

In Romanian

  1. (zool.) (Bos primigenius) taur sălbatic, care trăia odinioară și în țara noastră, socotit strămoșul direct al vitelor mari cornute; bou sur.
  2. (ist.) vechea stemă a Moldovei, închipuind un cap de bour.
  3. (înv.) fier (înroșit) cu care se însemnau răufăcătorii, vitele, pietrele de hotar etc.
  4. (spec.) partea de dinainte a tălpii de la sanie, întoarsă în sus (în forma coarnelor bourului).

Etymology

Inherited from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). It may have passed through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form or was influenced by bubulus; cf. the form bobulum. Compare also Albanian buall. Doublet of bivol, which came through a Slavic source.

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