bure

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

English

Etymology

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Noun

bure (plural bures)

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

Anagrams

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[1] (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

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

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuː.re/

Noun

būre

  1. dative singular of būr

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin butyrum.

Noun

bure oblique singularm (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

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Unknown. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bûre/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧re

Noun

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

  1. (regional) barrel

Declension

Declension of bure
singular plural
nominative bure burad
genitive bureta buradi
dative buretu buradi
accusative bure burad
vocative bure buradi
locative buretu buradi
instrumental buretom buradi

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bure”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 97

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرِيء (barīʔ).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bure (invariable)

  1. free (obtainable without payment)

Adverb

bure

  1. in vain; pointlessly; fruitlessly

Swedish

Verb

bure

  1. (dated) past subjunctive of bära

West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.ˈre/

Noun

bure

  1. ginger

References

  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics