boru
Meaning
- duct, pipe, tube
- horn
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Frequency
Hyphenated as
bo‧ru
Pronounced as (IPA)
[bo.ɾu]
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بورو (boru, “pipe; horn; nonsense”), from Proto-Turkic *bur-gu (“pipe, horn”). Compare Old Turkic [script needed] (burğu, “horn-shaped wind instrument”), from [script needed] (bur, “to bend, to give a helical shape”), whence also Turkish bur- (“to twist, invert”).
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