boer

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) a (male) farmer, peasant
2. (masculine) a boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic
3. (in-compounds,masculine) a merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer'
4. (masculine) a jack (playing card)

Verb

1. (first-person,form-of,indicative,present,singular) inflection of boeren:
2. (form-of,indicative,present,second-person,singular) inflection of boeren:
3. (form-of,imperative) inflection of boeren:

Concepts

farmer

peasant

jack

countryman

knave

rancher

belch

yokel

page

burp

agriculturist

tiller

boor

hick

agrarian

agriculturalist

rustic

jackal

varlet

Boer

plowman

agronomist

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buːr/

Etymology

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).