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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Boris

Slavic masc. proper name, literally "fight," from Slavic root *bor- "to fight, overcome" (see bore (v.)).

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Boris (crater)

Boris is a tiny lunar crater that is located on the Mare Imbrium, to the northeast of the crater Delisle. It lies near the southwest extremity of a sinuous rille that is designated Rima Delisle. This rille meanders to the northeast, towards the crater Heis, before vanishing into the lunar mare.

This is one of the smallest craters on the Moon to be officially given a name by the IAU.

Boris (given name)

Boris, Borys or Barys ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, ; ) is a male name of Bulgarian origin. Nowadays, it is most widely represented in Russia (by the number of the name carriers), almost equally in Belarus, less in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine. In recent generations it has also been used among speakers of Germanic (continental and Anglo-Frisian) and, to a lesser extent, Romance languages.

Boris (band)

is a Japanese avant-garde metal band. Currently, the band's personnel consists of drummer-vocalist Atsuo, bassist-guitarist-vocalist Takeshi, and guitarist-vocalist Wata.

Boris takes its name from a song on the Melvins' Bullhead, and released its first album, Absolutego, on the group's own label, Fangs Anal Satan, in 1996. Since then, they have released 23 studio albums, including Pink, Heavy Rocks and Akuma No Uta, a number of EPs, 7" singles, and full-length collaborative recordings, on various record labels around the world.

Boris (song)

Boris is a song by The Melvins on their 1991 album, Bullhead. Due to its extremely slow speeds and repetitive guitars it is often regarded as a doom metal song. The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book Neither Here nor There and the live album Alive at the F*cker Club. The Japanese doom/ drone metal band Boris named themselves after this song. The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album Amplifier Worship has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song.

The song was covered by Isis and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on the 2005 tribute album We Reach: The Music of the Melvins. This song is no relation to the song by Boy of the same title.

Boris (singer)

Boris (real name : Philippe Dhondt, born on May 19, 1965, in Roubaix, France) is a French singer, songwriter, composer and radio host on Radio Galaxie (a radio in Nord-Pas-de-Calais). He participated in many dance projects and remains particularly famous for having created the character of Boris in the late 1990s, which had huge success with the top three hit singles " Soirée disco" and "Miss Camping", and for his hit "Le Dormeur", a top ten hit in France, recorded when he was member of Pleasure Game band, in 1991. He received ten Gold discs during the 1990s in Benelux.

Boris (TV series)

Boris is an Italian television series produced from 2007 to 2010 by Wilder for Fox International Channels Italy

Boris (surname)

Boris is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Boyko Borisov, former Bulgarian Premier
  • Jean-Pierre Boris, journalist at Radio France Internationale
  • Paul Boris, retired Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Trevor Boris, Canadian comedian and writer
  • Leonard Borisoff, American vocalist, songwriter and record producer
Boris (EP)

Boris is the original EP recorded by Yezda Urfa to gather attention from record companies. Three of the pieces were reworked on Sacred Baboon (To-Ta in the Moya, Boris and his 3 Verses (including "Flow Guides Aren't My Bag"), and 3, Almost 4, 6 Yea). The album is now a rare find in the progressive rock circles 1

Usage examples of "boris".

By the middle of the next forenoon, Boris and his wife, seated in the open kibitka, drawn by post-horses, reached the boundaries of the estate, a few versts from the village.

Ian Young took this seat next to me, and Boris Dmitrevich the one opposite.

All the furniture, except for the two chairs repositioned for Boris Dmitrevich and Ian Young, was ranged round the walls against the bookshelves and cupboards, leaving the centre free.

Young carried on a short conversation with Boris Dmitrevich in impenetrable Russian, and then did a spot of translation, looking more worried than I liked.

It appeared, from the expressions all around me, that what Boris was saying was no news to anyone except Ian Young and myself.

I said the words deliberately flatly, and Ian Young relayed them the same way, but they reproduced in Boris the old high alarm.

There would have been much trouble for many people, not just for Boris, if he had been stopped and searched.

There was the possibility that Boris was mistaken, and also the possibility that he was not.

Boris, Boris told Evgeny, Evgeny rang me, and I had heard from Oliver Waterman that you would be round for a drink.

Evgeny and Olga had pressed Ian Young and me to stay for a further ten minutes after Boris had gone, so that if anyone were watching, we should not be connected.

I also told him, though without names or places or details, the gist of what Boris Telyat-nikov had overheard, and the inferences one could draw from it.

Moscow still sat close at my shoulder, and I thought of the fear of Boris and Evgeny and the doubts and caution of Yuri and Misha and Kropotkin.

He knitted his heavy brows and drank deeply, and his fiery gray eyes shot such incessant glances from side to side that Boris and the Princess Martha could not exchange a single wink of silent advice.

The festival granted on behalf of Prince Boris was one of the grandest ever given at the castle.

Prince Alexis, in spite of this doubt, had been assured by Boris that the dramatic part of the entertainment would not be a failure.