burga

Debated. Documented as burgana in Medieval Latin local documents. Either from Vulgar Latin, or from Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”).

• Hyphenation: bur‧ga

burga f (plural burgas)

1. hot spring

Whilst toponomy shows that once this word was in use in most of Galicia, today it is mostly reduced to name the hot springs of the city of Ourense.

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “burgaa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “burga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “burga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -urɡa
• Hyphenation: bùr‧ga

burga f (plural burghe)

1. a kind of basket filled with stones and used to prevent the erosion of rivers banks

• burga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ɡɑ/, [ˈburˠ.ɣɑ]

burga

1. genitive plural of burg

• purgia (Surmiran)

From Latin purgō, purgāre (“clean; purge”).

burga f

1. (medicine, Sursilvan) diarrhea

• fuera
• diarrea

burga (plural burgalar)

1. flea