Bora

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 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)

Transportation and vehicles

• Bora Class guided missile hovercraft, a hoverborne cruise missile attack craft 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.

See also

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