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 c ...

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

Bora, Punjab Bora is a village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, India. Location Bora is located east of Garshankar. It is situated on the Garhshankar - Sri Anand pur Sahib Road. History In the 19th century, between 1800-1820 AD, Shri Mahant Ram, a ...

, 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 The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly ...

, 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.

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 the iterations of him. Publication history The Inheritors, who made thei ...

, 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 serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from 1984 to 1995, with the 519 individual chapters colle ...

'' * 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 Bora are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian, and Brazilian Amazon, located between the Putumayo and Napo rivers. Ethnography The Bora speak a Witotan language and comprise approximately 2,000 people. In the last forty years, th ...

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

Bora (Albanian name) 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) ...

, 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 purp ...

, 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 flagsh ...

* Paradelta Bora, an Italian paraglider design *

Maserati Bora The Maserati Bora (Tipo AM117) is a Mid-engine design, mid-engine two-seat coupe manufactured by Maserati from 1971 to 1978. In common with other Maserati cars of the era, it is named after a wind, Bora (wind), Bora being the wind of Trieste. T ...

, 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 wa ...

/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) Bora is a tactical ballistic missile developed by Turkish company ROKETSAN. It has 610 mm diameter, a length of 8.0 m, a total weight of 2500 kg with a minimum range of 80 km and maximum range of 280 km. Its export version is called Khan. It was ...

, 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 during m ...

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 an ...

* 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 ba ...

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