bora

noun

1. An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.

   “Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.”

   “By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...”

2. 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.

   “When the bora blew down from the mountains, announcing the winter, would he ride it on out of town?”

3. (plural, plural-only)An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.
4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Bohra.

name

1. A language spoken in Colombia and Peru.
2. A surname.