bora

Meaning

Noun

• A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
• A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.

Related

Similar words

• burbung

Origin

• From Gamilaraay būru.
• Perhaps from a dialectal form of Italian borea ("north wind"), from Latin Boreās.