borona

• IPA^(key): [ˈboronɒ]

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• Hyphenation: bo‧ro‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

Borrowed from different Slavic languages.^[1] See Proto-Slavic *borna.

borona (plural boronák)

1. harrow (a device to smooth or break up the soil)

Borrowed from a Slavic language. See Proto-Slavic *brьvьno.

borona (plural boronák)

1. (dialectal) beam, joist

   Synonyms: gerenda, épületfa

2. (dialectal) board fence

   Synonyms: deszkakerítés, palánk

• (tool): borona in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (beam, joist; fence): borona in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• borona in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Said to be from Celtic *borŭna. The ultimate origin of this root would be uncertain, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars-, from or related to *bʰers- (“tip, bristle; pointy, prickly”), which would make it related to Welsh bara (“bread”).^[1]

Compare Old Irish arbor n (“grain, corn”), which is instead from Proto-Celtic *arwar (“grain”). For alternative etymologies, see the apparent cognates Asturian boroña, Old Galician-Portuguese borõa and, descended from this, Galician broa, which have all been said to possibly be from Germanic instead.

• IPA^(key): /boˈɾona/ [boˈɾo.na]

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• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: bo‧ro‧na

borona f (plural boronas)

1. millet

   Synonym: mijo

2. maize; corn

   Synonym: maíz

3. corn bread
4. (Latin America) crumb

   Synonym: migaja

• “borona”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024