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Bora


Bora


Bora may refer to:

Geography

  • Bora (Australian), the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings
  • Bora, India, a village in Punjab, India
  • Borá, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil
  • Bora (wind), a north to north-eastern katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea.

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Bora (comics), a Marvel Comics character with wind-related powers
  • Bora Horza Gobuchul, the protagonist of the novel Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

Television

  • Bora (television series)
  • Bora, a super-powerful robot that fought Pluto in an Astro Boy (1980 TV series) episode; Bora's attack is a powerful cry that releases a katabatic wind
  • Bora, a character in Dragon Ball
  • Bora, a group of rebel colonists found in the 2000 game Tachyon: The Fringe

People

Culture

  • Bora language, a Witotoan language spoken in Western Amazon forest region (Peru, Brazil, and Colombia)
  • Bora people, the ethnic group that speaks the Bora language

Name

  • Bora (surname); also a former military/professional title in Assam
  • Bora (Korean name), a Korean feminine given name (including a list of people with the name)
  • Bora (Albanian name), an Albanian feminine given name
  • Bora (Turkish name), a Turkish masculine given (including a list of people with the name)
  • Bora Milutinović former footballer and manager

Transportation and vehicles

  • Bora-class corvette, a hoverborne guided missile corvette in the Russian navy
  • Bora One and Bora Two, aerodynamic bicycle wheels manufactured by Italian company Campagnolo
  • Paradelta Bora, an Italian paraglider design
  • Maserati Bora, an Italian sports car named after the Bora wind
  • Volkswagen Bora/Jetta, a German small sedan, named after the Bora wind

Other uses

  • Bora (wind), a katabatic wind in the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea regions of southeastern Europe and Turkey
  • Bora (missile), a tactical ballistic missile of Turkey
  • Bora, an Aurora A kinase activator in the cell cycle
  • BORA, acronym for the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
  • Bora, the Guyanese name for Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, a legume that grows in tropical and subtropical climates
  • Bora–Hansgrohe, a cycling team sponsored by a German manufacturer of cooktops.
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See also

  • Yoon Bo-ra, a South Korean idol singer
  • Bohra (disambiguation)
  • Bora Bora (disambiguation)
  • Bori (disambiguation)
  • Borat, a fictional character

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Bora by Wikipedia (Historical)