bure

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

English

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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 (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 French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin butyrum.

Noun

bure oblique singular, m (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

Adjective

bure

  1. inflection of bury:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

  1. 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

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

Noun

bure

  1. ginger

References

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