bocor

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Haitian Creole bòkò, from Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ (“soothsayer”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bocor (plural bocors)

  1. (voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:
      “The bokor who knows the magic can make anyone a zombi—a Haitian living abroad, a foreigner.”
    • 1989, James A. Michener, Caribbean:
      The corpse is buried in all solemnity, and two days later, at dead of night, the bocor digs it up, stops feeding it salt, and has himself a zombie.
    • 1995, Elizabeth McAlister, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 305:
      A bòkò is an entrepreneur, and has a reputation as a man who will “work with both hands,” that is, for healing and revenge.
    • 2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 180:
      It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay بوچور (bocor), from Sundanese [Term?] (“to flow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbo.t͡ʃor]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧cor

Verb

bocor

  1. to be leaky; to leak
    perahu bocor ― leaky boat
    atap bocor ― leaky roof

Conjugation

Conjugation of bocor (meng-, transitive)
root bocor
active passive basic
imperative 		emphatic
jussive
reflective1 ordinary
ordinary
nominative bocor terbocor – – bocorlah
accusative / dative / locative membocori terbocori dibocori bocori bocorilah
perfective causative / applicative2 membocorkan terbocorkan dibocorkan bocorkan bocorkanlah
causative
nominative – – – – –
accusative / dative / locative – – – – –
perfective causative / applicative2 – – – – –

1 There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
2 The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

Adjective

bocor (superlative terbocor)

  1. leaky

Derived terms

Further reading

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