Bora may refer to:

Geography

Bora (Australian) Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men. The initiation ...

, the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings * Bora, India, a village in Punjab, India *

Borá Borá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 838 (2020 est.) in an area of 119 km². The elevation is 582 m. Borá is the least populated municipality in São Paulo and the second least populated in Brazil. Its ...

, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil *

Bora (wind) The bora is a northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Similar nomenclature is used for north-eastern winds in other littoral areas of eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. Name It is known in Greek as (' ...

, a north to north-eastern katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. * Bora River, a name for the

Lotru The Lotru is a right tributary of the river Olt in Romania. Its source is in the Parâng Mountains. It feeds the reservoirs Vidra, Malaia and Brădișor. It flows into the Olt in Golotreni, near the town of Brezoi. It passes through the commu ...

River in Romania * Bora River, a semi-fictional river in The African Queen (novel), also named the Ulanga-Bora River, know often known as the Ulanga River.

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Bora (comics) The Inheritors are a supervillain group which appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The family of Morlun, they typically are enemies of Spider-Man and Alternative versions of Spider-Man, the iterations of him. Publication hi ...

, a Marvel Comics character with wind-related powers * Bora Horza Gobuchul, the protagonist of the novel ''

Consider Phlebas ''Consider Phlebas'', first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. The novel revolves around the Idiran� ...

'' 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 is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The Dragon Ball (manga), initial manga, written and illustrated by Toriyama, was Serial (literature), serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 indi ...

'' * 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 Campagnolo is an Italian manufacturer of high-end bicycle components with headquarters in Vicenza, Italy. The components are organised as groupsets (gruppi), and are a near-complete collection of a bicycle's mechanical parts. Campagnolo's flagsh ...

* 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

, 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 The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (sometimes known by the acronym NZBORA or simply BORA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand and part of New Zealand's uncodified constitution that sets out the rights and fundamental freedoms ...

* Bora, the Guyanese name for

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis The asparagus bean (''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis'') is a legume cultivated for its edible green pods containing immature seeds, like the green bean. It is also known as yardlong bean, pea bean, long-podded cowpea, Chinese long ...

, a legume that grows in tropical and subtropical climates * Bora–Hansgrohe, a cycling team sponsored by a German manufacturer of cooktops * Bora Lüftungstechnik GmbH, a German company