Sunday, July 31, 2011

rain

dobor : rain

The Tarijan word for rain is dobor. Dobor is an unusual last name.

In other languages:
In Polish similar word dobór means selection, choice.

International locations:
Dobor is the name of cities in Slovakia, Chad, and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

How I came up with this word:
Dobor is a mixture of the transliterated word for rain in Russian which is dozhd’ (дождь), and the transliterated word for rain in Mongolian which is boroo (бороо).

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