burrow

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Etymology

Origin Unknown. Formally, it appears to be a variant of borough, but this sense is not known in Old English burh or in any Germanic cognate languages.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌrəʊ
• Homophone: borough

Noun

burrow (plural burrows)

1. A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.

Translations

A tunnel or hole

• Arabic: جحر (ar) (juḥr) m
• Belarusian: нара (be) (nará) f
• Bulgarian: дупка (bg) (dúpka) f, дупка в земята (bg) (dúpka v zemjáta) f (на животно)
• Catalan: cau (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地洞 (cmn) (dìdòng)

• Czech: nora (cs) f
• Danish: jordhule (da) c
• Dutch: hol (nl), burcht (nl) m and f
• Finnish: kolo (fi)
• French: terrier (fr) m, clapier (fr) m (rabbit burrow)
• German: Bau (de) m
• Italian: tana (it) f
• Japanese: 穴 (ja) (あな, ana), 巣穴 (ja) (すあな, suana)
• Latin: hola (la) f

• Macedonian: дупка (mk) (dúpka) f, дупка во земјата (mk) (dúpka vo zémjata) f
• Manx: towl (gv) m
• Maori: rua (mi), unu (mi), tūrua (mi)
• Polish: jama (pl) f, nora (pl) f, tunel (pl) m
• Portuguese: túnel (pt), toca (pt)
• Romanian: vizuină (ro) f
• Russian: нора (ru) (norá) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јазбина (sh) f

  Roman: jazbina (sh) f

• Slovak: nora (sk) f
• Slovene: jazbina (sl) f
• Spanish: madriguera (es) f, ratonera (es) f (mouse burrow)
• Swedish: gryt (sv) n, jordkula (sv) c
• Ukrainian: нора (uk) (norá) f

Verb

burrow (third-person singular simple present burrows, present participle burrowing, simple past and past participle burrowed)

1. To dig a tunnel or hole.

Translations

to dig a hole

• Bulgarian: ровя, изравям (дупка в земята)
• Dutch: wroeten (nl)
• Finnish: kaivaa (1)
• German: graben (de)

• Italian: scavare una tana (it)
• Polish: kopać (pl)
• Portuguese: cavar (pt)
• Spanish: socavar (es), cavar (es)