bure

See also: Bure, burĕ, burė, burę, and буре

English

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Etymology

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Noun

bure (plural bures)

1. A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

Anagrams

• uber-, buer, Uber, ebru, erub, Rueb, rube, Rube, über-, Brue, uber, Reub

Afrikaans

Noun

bure

1. plural of buur

Champenois

Noun

bure

1. (Auve) butter

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎ (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

Danish

Noun

bure n

1. indefinite plural of bur

French

Etymology

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byʁ/

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Noun

bure f (plural bures)

1. frieze (cloth)
2. habit (monk's robe)

Further reading

• “bure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: bù‧re

Noun

bure f (plural buri)

1. beam of a plough

Anagrams

• Urbe, urbe

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.re/

Noun

būre

1. dative singular of būr

Old French

Alternative forms

• burre

Etymology

From Latin butyrum.

Noun

bure oblique singular, m (oblique plural bures, nominative singular bures, nominative plural bure)

1. butter

Descendants

• Middle French: burre, beurre (regional)
  • French: beurre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: buure, burre, bür
• → Italian: burro
• → Neapolitan: burro

  Tarantino: burre

• → Sicilian: vurru

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 663
• “beurre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old High German

Noun

būre

1. dative singular of būr

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɛ/
• Rhymes: -urɛ
• Syllabification: bu‧re
• Homophone: burę

Adjective

bure

1. inflection of bury:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural