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Definitions and meaning of bur

bur

Translingual

Symbol

bur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Burmese.

English

Alternative forms

• burr

Etymology

From Middle English burre, from a North Germanic language, such as Danish burre (“bur, burdock”). See also burr. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /bɜː/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /bʌr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bøː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /beː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /bɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: burr, Burr; birr (fern–fir–fur merger); bare, bear (both fair–fur merger)

Noun

bur (plural burs)

1. A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
2. Any of several plants having such husks.
3. A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
4. Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• RUB, bru, rub

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/, [b̥uːˀɐ̯], [b̥uɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -ur

Noun

bur n (singular definite buret, plural indefinite bure)

1. cage
2. (obsolete) (storage) room

Inflection

References

• “bur” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “bur” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʏːr/
• Rhymes: -ʏːr

Noun

bur m (genitive singular burs, nominative plural burir)

1. (poetic) son

Usage notes

• The word sees the most use in poetry and the phrase eiga börn og buru, making the regular accusative plural form buri rarer in practice than buru.

Declension

Derived terms

• -bur

References

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “bur”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “bur” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
• “bur”, in Ritmálssafn Orðabókar Háskólans [The Written Collection of the Lexicological Institute] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, (Can we date this quote?)

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dw-enos. Compare Romanian bun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bur/

Adjective

bur m (feminine burę, neuter buro, plural bur, feminine plural bure)

1. good

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boor (“drill”).

Noun

bur

1. drill

Latvian

Verb

bur

1. inflection of burt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of burt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of burt

Maay

Noun

bur

1. flour

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بُور (būr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

Noun

bur m (plural bwar, diminutive bura)

1. meadow, pastureland

Middle English

Noun

bur

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of bour

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bʉʷːɾ]

Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura or burene)

1. cage
2. goal (sports)

Derived terms

• burhøne, burhøns

References

“bur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búr.

Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura)

1. cage
2. goal (sports)

Etymology 2

Verb

bur

1. present of bu

References

“bur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą. Cognate with Old Saxon būr, Old High German būr (German Bauer (“birdcage”)), Old Norse búr (Swedish bur).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

Noun

būr n

1. private chamber, room
   • The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

• Middle English: bour, boure, bowre, bowur, bur (Early Middle English)
  • English: bower
  • Scots: bour

Old Frisian

Noun

būr m

1. a peasant, farmer

Inflection

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“dwelling”), whence also Old English būr, Old Norse búr.

Alternative forms

• pūr

Noun

būr n

1. dwelling, quarters, bower

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: būr
  • German: Bauer (“birdcage”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“inhabitant”).

Noun

*būr m

1. peasant, farmer

Declension

Related terms

• gibūro
• gibūr

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle High German: būre (“neighbor, farmer, peasant”)
  • Alemannic German: Puur, Buur
  • Bavarian: Baua
    • Mòcheno: pauer
  • Central Franconian: Buur, Boor, Bouer, Bauer
    • Luxembourgish: Bauer
  • German: Bauer (“farmer”)
    • → English: bauer; bower
    • → Polish: bauer
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pȁor, па̏ор
  • Rhine Franconian: Bauer
    • Pennsylvania German: Bauer
  • Yiddish: פּויער (poyer)
  • → Upper Sorbian: bur

Old Norse

Noun

bur

1. accusative/dative singular of burr

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz, whence also Old English būr, Old Norse búr.

Noun

būr m

1. neighbour
2. inhabitant

Descendants

• Low German: Buer, Boer

Etymology 2

Same as the masculine noun.

Noun

būr n

1. dwelling

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᛒᚢᚱ

Etymology

From Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą.

Noun

bur n

1. dwelling, residence
2. storehouse
3. room, chamber
4. cage

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: bur c

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur/
• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: bur

Noun

bur f

1. genitive plural of bura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bur

Noun

bur m or f by sense (plural bures)

1. archaic form of bóer

Romagnol

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *burius, compare Italian buio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

Noun

bur m

1. darkness (lack of light)
   • December 2007, Nevio Spadoni, Guido Bianchi, Urazion in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 9:

Sumerian

Romanization

bur

1. romanization of 𒁓 (bur)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish būr, from Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʉːr/
• Rhymes: -ʉːr

Noun

bur c

1. a cage
2. (slang) a prison, a jail, an arrest

   att sitta i buren

   to be imprisoned

Declension

Related terms

• bura in

References

• bur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian бу́рый (búryj).

Adjective

bur

1. brown

Inflection

Noun

bur

1. brown

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “бурый”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /bɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /biːr/

Adjective

bur

1. soft mutation of pur

Mutation

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊɾ/

Adjective

bur

1. little

Noun

bur

1. one's own child

   Bur egi ― My child

2. the child of a woman's co-wife
3. (by extension) the child of one's brothers or cousins

References

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad

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