zbor

• zboru

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, most likely Macedonian збор (zbor, “word”), where the transformation from "meeting, gathering" to "word" occurred in the same way as the Aromanian synonym cuvendã (“word”) from Latin conventum or Albanian kuvend; compare Proto-Slavic *sъborъ (“meeting, gathering”) (Serbo-Croatian zbȍr/збо̏р). Akin to zburãscu (“speak”). Not related to Romanian zbor (“flight”).

zbor n (plural zboarã or zboari/zboare/zbori)

1. word

   Synonyms: cuvendã, grai

• zburãscu
• zburest

• grair

Compare Daco-Romanian zbor. Related to or derived from azboair, or taken from the Romanian word.

zbor n (plural zboruri)

1. flight

From the verb zbura. Compare Friulian svol, Romansch sgol, svoul, Sardinian bolu, Catalan and French vol, Italian volo, Spanish vuelo.

zbor n (plural zboruri)

1. flight

zbor

1. first-person singular present indicative of zbura

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съборъ (sŭborŭ), from Proto-Slavic *sъborъ (“meeting, gathering”). Doublet of sobor.

zbor n (plural zboruri)

1. (obsolete) fair, funfair

• zbor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъborъ.

• IPA^(key): /zbôr/

zbȍr m (Cyrillic spelling збо̏р)

1. meeting, gathering
2. (military) assembly
3. (Croatia) choir

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъborъ.

• IPA^(key): [zbɔr]

zbor m

1. (music) choir
2. body (advisory)

• “zbor”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024