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buro

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See also: buró, büro, büró, and Büro

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French bureau (“desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize”), from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).

Noun

buro (plural buros)

  1. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) an office
    • 1998 May 13, “More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched”, in ANC Dailey News Briefing‎, retrieved 14 September 2012:
      … an employment buro said on Tuesday. The retrenchments took place between November last year and March 1998, the Employment Buro of Africa's regional manager, Chris Hechter said.
    • 2008 February 19, Alejandro López de Haro, Jr., “Fidel Castro Steps Down”, in Ground Report‎, archived from the original on 26 April 2013:
      … a member of both the council of ministers and the Cuban Communist Party's political buro.
  2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
    • 1902, Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date‎, HTML edition, Univ. of North Carolina, published 1998:
      Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the buro to say their lessons.
  3. (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
    • 1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely‎, Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
      And I went up into the spare chamber, and sort o' fixed Philury's things to the best advantage; for I knew the neighbors would be in to look at 'em. And I was a standin' there as calm and happy as the buro or table, ...
    • 1998 May, Phil D. Zimmerman, “The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination”, in Antiques, volume 153, number 5, page 740:
      One can only speculate about the appearance of the "New-fashion buro" advertised for sale in the Boaton Gazette of May 1, 1750.

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bureau, from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.

Pronunciation

Noun

buro (plural buro's)

  1. desk
  2. office

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /byˈroː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bu‧ro

Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive burootje n)

  1. superseded spelling of bureau

Istro-Romanian

Adjective

buro n

  1. neuter singular of bur

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.rɔ/
  • Rhymes: -urɔ
  • Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buro f

  1. vocative singular of bura

Spanish

Etymology

Derived from Latin būtȳrum (“butter”), from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon). Cognate with English butter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbu.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -uɾo
  • Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buro m (plural buros)

  1. (Aragon) fuller's earth (fine white-blueish clay)
    Synonym: greda

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Verb

buro

  1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of bära

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay budu. Compare Cebuano buro, Hiligaynon buro, Ilocano buro, Kapampangan buru, and Indonesian budu.

Pronunciation

Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. pickling (with salt or brine, usually done with fish, meat, or shrimp with rice)
    Synonyms: himol, tinama
  2. anything that lingers in one place or state
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Adjective

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. pickled
Derived terms
  • burong baboy
  • burong baka
  • burong hipon
  • burong isda
  • burong itlog
  • buruhan
  • mambuburo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

Pronunciation

Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)

  1. ass; donkey
    Synonyms: asno, buriko

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾoʔ/ [ˈbuː.ɾoʔ]
      • Rhymes: -uɾoʔ
    • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo] (obsolete)
  • Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

burò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. a type of white worm that feeds on wounds, or lives in the intestines of humans or fish

Etymology 4

Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English as a semantic loan from English bureau, influenced in spelling by Spanish buró. Compare Cebuano buro.

Pronunciation

Noun

buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)

  1. bureau; a government office
    Synonym: kawanihan

Further reading

  • “buro”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “buro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “fish”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

buro

  1. a large shrimp

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from French bureau.

Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.

Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)

  1. desk
  2. office where records are kept
  3. bureau

Further reading

  • “buro”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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