Bora may refer to:

Geography

Bora (Australian) Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal people of Australia, 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 t ...

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

, 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 a ...

, 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 ''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 Idira ...

'' 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 Bora may refer to: Geography * Bora (Australian), the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings * Bora, Punjab, a village in India * Borá, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil * Bora (wind ...

, 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) Bora, also spelled Borah or Barah, is an Assamese surname used commonly throughout Assam. Historical usage Originally, the ''Bora'' surname was used as a high military position/title in the Chutia Kingdom held by individuals from the ''Buruk'' cla ...

; also a former military/professional title in Assam *

Bora (Korean name) Bora is a Korean feminine given name. Unlike most Korean given names, which are composed of two single-syllable Sino-Korean morphemes each written with one hanja, Bora is an indigenous Korean name (): a single two-syllable word meaning "purple". ...

, a Korean feminine given name (including a list of people with the name) * Bora (Albanian name), an Albanian feminine given name *

Bora (Turkish name) Bora is a common masculine Turkish given name. See Bora (wind). People Given name * Bora Aksu, London-based Turkish fashion designer * Bora Dağtekin, award-winning German author and screen writer of Turkish descent * Bora Körk, Turkish footba ...

, a Turkish masculine given (including a list of people with the name)

Transportation and vehicles

Bora Class guided missile hovercraft The ''Bora''-class, Soviet designation Project 1239, hoverborne guided-missile corvette of the Russian Navy, also bears the NATO class name "Dergach", is one of the few types of military surface effect ship built solely for marine combat p ...

, a hoverborne cruise missile attack craft 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 flag ...

Paradelta Bora The Paradelta Bora is an Italian single-place paraglider, designed and produced by Paradelta Parma of Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciu ...

, an Italian paraglider design * Maserati Bora, an Italian sports car named after the Bora wind *

Volkswagen Bora The Volkswagen Bora is a small family car, the fourth generation of the Volkswagen Jetta, and the successor to the Volkswagen Vento. Production of the car began in July 1999. Carrying on the wind nomenclature from previous generations, the car ...

/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 Aurora kinase A also known as serine/threonine-protein kinase 6 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''AURKA'' gene. Aurora A is a member of a family of mitotic serine/threonine kinases. It is implicated with important processes durin ...

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 its acronym, NZBORA or simply BORA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand part of New Zealand's uncodified constitution that sets out the rights and fundamental freedoms of a ...

* Bora, the Guyanese name for Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, a legume that grows in tropical and subtropical climates *

Bora–Hansgrohe Bora–Hansgrohe (''UCI Code'': BOH) is a UCI WorldTeam cycling team established in 2010 with a German license, founded and managed by Ralph Denk. It is sponsored by BORA, a German manufacturer of extractor hoods and cooktops, and Hansgrohe, a ...

, a cycling team sponsored by a German manufacturer of cooktops.