Bora (name)
Bora is both a first name and a family name .
As a first name it appears as a Turkish male first name - it is derived from the Wind Bora - as well as a Mongolian name with the meaning "gray". The name also occurs outside of Turkey .
It also occurs as a Korean female first name, which is written with the Korean alphabet 보라 and means purple or violet . It is a purely Korean name that is not formed from Sinocorean syllables and therefore has no equivalent in Hanja . As a purely Korean name, it is sometimes written without a hyphen in transcriptions that otherwise include a hyphen between the syllables.
Bora also appears as a family name, a meaning connection with the first name is not necessarily available.
Name bearer
Male first name
- Bora Ćosić (* 1932), Serbian writer
- Bora Dagtkin (* 1978), German-Turkish screenwriter and film director
- Bora Körk (* 1980), Turkish football player
- Bora Laskin (1912–1984), Canadian judge and legal scholar
- Bora Milutinović (* 1944), Serbian football player and coach
- Bora Sevim (* 1982), Turkish football player
Female first name
family name
- Alfons Bora (* 1957), German lawyer and sociologist
- Ekrem Bora (actor) (1934–2012), Turkish actor
- Ekrem Bora , known as Eko Fresh (* 1983), German rapper
- Mevlüt Bora (* 1947), Turkish cyclist
- Salih Bora (* 1953), Turkish wrestler
- Tanıl Bora (* 1963), Turkish political scientist
- Vedat Bora (* 1995), Turkish football player
- Victorina Bora (* 1972), Romanian handball player
Noble family
The family name of the Saxon noble family Bora is von Bora .
- Florian von Bora (* around 1530), nephew of Katharina von Bora
- Jhan von Bora (around 1457 – around 1523), father of Katharina von Bora
- Hans von Bora (around 1490 – around 1572), brother of Katharina von Bora, 1542–1544 administrator of the Cronschwitz monastery
- Wolf von Bora (around 1495–1531), brother of Katharina von Bora
- Maria von Bora (around 1500–1525), sister of Katharina von Bora
- Clemens von Bora (around 1505 – around 1587/91), brother of Katharina von Bora
- Katharina von Bora (1499–1552), wife of the German reformer Martin Luther
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bora in the dictionary of names (Turkish)
- ^ On the Documentation and Construction of Period Mongolian Names
- ↑ 보라 in Naver (Korean)
- ↑ Jin-Suk Cho: The Latin Transcription of Korean (PDF; 2.7 MB) page 43