bôer
Portuguese, noun
bôer is spelled B-Ô-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 162,831st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bôer is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of bóer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bóer is a different word: “Boer (South African of Dutch descent)”.
What does bôer mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of bóer
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineBoer (who descends from the early Dutch settlers of South Africa)
noun
- 1
femininemasculineBoer (South African of Dutch descent)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. africâner 2. relativo aos descendentes de holandeses na África do Sul 3. sul-africano
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bôer
- bóeres plural
- bôer alternative Brazil
- bur alternative archaic
- bôeres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bôer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bôer in Portuguese?
bôer appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).