bure

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

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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Noun[edit]

bure (plural bures)

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

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

bure

  1. plural of buur

Champenois[edit]

Noun[edit]

bure

  1. (Auve) butter

References[edit]

  • Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

bure n

  1. indefinite plural of bur

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /byʁ/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

bure f (plural bures)

  1. frieze (cloth)
  2. habit (monk's robe)

Further reading[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bura.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: bù‧re

Noun[edit]

bure f (plural buri)

  1. beam of a plough

Anagrams[edit]

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin butyrum.

Noun[edit]

bure oblique singularm (oblique plural bures, nominative singular bures, nominative plural bure)

  1. butter

Descendants[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Old High German[edit]

Noun[edit]

būre

  1. dative singular of būr

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bure

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

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

  1. barrel

Declension[edit]

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic بَرِيء (barīʔ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bure (invariable)

  1. free (obtainable without payment)

Adverb[edit]

bure

  1. in vain; pointlessly; fruitlessly

Swedish[edit]

Verb[edit]

bure

  1. (dated) past subjunctive of bära

West Makian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bure

  1. ginger

References[edit]

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