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BORIS
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bulgarian, Russian, Slovene, German
Other Scripts: Борис (Russian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced: bah-REES (Russian), BO-ris (German), BOR-is (English) [key]
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From the Turkic name Bogoris, perhaps meaning "short" or "wolf". It was borne by king Boris I of Bulgaria in the 9th century, who converted his country to Christianity, as well as two later Bulgarian emperors. In Russia it was the name of an 11th-century saint (a prince martyred with his brother Gleb) and the 16th-century emperor Boris Godunov (who was later the subject of a play of that name by Alexander Pushkin). |
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