Bora may refer to:
Geography
- Bora (Australian), the site of an initiation ceremony in Australian aboriginal culture, sometimes known as Bora rings
- Bora, India, a village in Punjab, 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 corvette, a hoverborne guided missile corvette 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
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