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bourse

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See also: Bourse and boursé

English

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Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.

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bourse (plural bourses)

  1. A stock exchange.
    1. (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
  2. (philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
  3. (botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.

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French

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Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, hide).

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bourse f (plural bourses)

  1. (dated) coin purse
    Synonym: porte-monnaie
  2. a purseful of money; by extension, any sum of money available to be paid
  3. financial grant
  4. bourse, stock exchange
  5. (anatomy)
    1. (generally in the plural) the scrotum
      Synonym: scrotum
      • 1805, Georges Cuvier, Les organes de la génération:
        Les testicules [...] sont suspendus au-dessous du bassin dans une espèce de bourse ou de scrotum [...]
        The testicles [...] are hanging below the pelvis in a sort of purse or scrotum [...]
    2. (in the plural, slang) balls
      Synonyms: testicules, (slang) couilles
      Ça remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t’es vidé les bourses ?
      When was the last time you emptied your balls?

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  • English: bourse
  • Persian: بورس (burs)
  • Romanian: bursă
  • Turkish: burs

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Middle French

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From Old French borse.

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bourse f (plural bourses)

  1. bag or purse

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From Old French borse, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, hide).

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bourse f (plural bourses)

  1. (Jersey) mermaid's purse
  2. (Jersey) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
  3. (Jersey) corn salad (Valerianella locusta)

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