buro

• bureau

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”).

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], 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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• Bour, Bøur

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

• IPA^(key): /byˈrʊə̯/

buro (plural buro's)

1. desk
2. office

• IPA^(key): /byˈroː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bu‧ro

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

1. superseded spelling of bureau

buro n

1. neuter singular of bur

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

buro f

1. vocative singular of bura

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

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

buro m (plural buros)

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

   Synonym: greda

• “buro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

buro

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

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

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

• boro — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

1. pickled

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)

1. ass; donkey

   Synonyms: asno, buriko

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

burò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

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

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈɾo/ [bʊˈɾo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)

1. bureau; a government office

   Synonym: kawanihan

• “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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.ɾo]

buro

1. a large shrimp

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

Ultimately from French bureau.

Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)

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

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