boer

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

From Dutch boer.

boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie)

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

   Synonym: pion

• → English: Boer

From Dutch boeren.

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.

• IPA^(key): /boːər/, [ˈb̥oːˀɐ]

From Dutch boer.

boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere)

1. A Boer.

• boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boer

1. indefinite plural of bo

• IPA^(key): /bur/, [buːr]

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

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).

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)

• bouwer

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

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.

boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n)

1. a belch, a burp

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boer

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

• bore
• ober

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

boer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of boō

• bor (superseded spelling, but still possible pronunciation)

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”.

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

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.

From Dutch boer.

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

1. (historical) A Boer.

• afrikander

• boar (Nynorsk)

• “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

1. (pre-1987) alternative form of boar

• bore