burek

See also: Burek

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

burek

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• börek, borek, brik

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بورك (börek).

Noun

burek (plural bureks)

2. A type of baked or fried filled pastry of the former Ottoman Empire.

Related terms

• cheburek
• burekas, bourekas

Translations

a type of baked or fried filled pastry

Arabic: بُورَك m (būrak), بُورِيك m (būrīk), بُرِيك m (burīk) Hijazi Arabic: بُريك m (burēk) Armenian: բյորեկ (hy) (byorek), պէօրէկ (hy) (pēōrēk) (Western Armenian) Azerbaijani: piroq Bulgarian: бюре́к m (bjurék) Chinese: Mandarin: 土耳其酥餅 / 土耳其酥饼 (Tǔ'ěrqí sūbǐng) Finnish: börek Georgian: ბორექი (boreki) German: Börek (de) m Greek: μπουρέκι (el) n (bouréki) Hebrew: בּוּרֶקָס (he) m (burékas) Japanese: ブレク (bureku) Kazakh: бөрек (börek) Korean: 뵈레크 (boerekeu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بۆرەک (borek) Northern Kurdish: boreg (ku) Ladino: boreka Macedonian: бу́рек (mk) m (búrek) Norwegian: Bokmål: børek m Ottoman Turkish: بورك (börek) Persian: Iranian Persian: بورَک (burak) Polish: burek (pl) m Russian: буре́к m (burék), буре́кас (ru) m (burékas) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бу̀рек m Roman: bùrek (sh) m Swedish: börek (sv) c Turkish: börek (tr) Uzbek: boʻrek

Anagrams

• Buker, Burke, burke

Kavalan

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

burek

1. young animal (of a cow, pig, bear, etc.)

Further reading

• Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸); Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006), Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)‎, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 100

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɛk/

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈbu.rɛk]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -urɛk
• Syllabification: bu‧rek

Etymology 1

From bury +‎ -ek.

Noun

burek m animal

1. mongrel (dog of mixed kind)

   Synonyms: kundel, mieszaniec

2. (derogatory, figuratively) yokel

   Synonym: prostak

3. (Near Masovian, Łuków County, Garwolin County) synonym of fartuch

Declension

Declension of burek

	singular	plural
nominative	burek	burki
genitive	burka	burków
dative	burkowi	burkom
accusative	burka	burki
instrumental	burkiem	burkami
locative	burku	burkach
vocative	burku	burki

Related terms

adjective

• bury

adverb

• buro

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

burek f

1. genitive plural of burka

Further reading

• burek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• burek in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892), “burek”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego)”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 185

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بورك (börek).

Noun

bùrek m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̀рек)

1. a type of baked or fried filled pastry

Declension

Declension of burek

	singular	plural
nominative	burek	bureci
genitive	bureka	bureka
dative	bureku	burecima
accusative	burek	bureke
vocative	bureče	bureci
locative	bureku	burecima
instrumental	burekom	burecima

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /búːrɛk/

Noun

bȗrek m inan

1. a type of baked or fried filled pastry

   Nimam za burek ― I haven't even enough money for a burek