bure

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

English

Etymology

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Noun

bure (plural bures)

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

Anagrams

• uber-, buer, Uber, ebru, erub, Rueb, rube, Rube, über-, Brue, uber, Reub

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^[1] (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/

• Audio:

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Noun

bure f (plural bures)

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

Further reading

• “bure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• Urbe, urbe

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.re/

Noun

būre

1. dative singular of būr

Old French

Alternative forms

• burre

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

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 663
• “beurre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old High German

Noun

būre

1. dative singular of būr

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɛ/
• Rhymes: -urɛ
• Syllabification: bu‧re
• Homophone: burę

Adjective

bure

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Unknown. First attested in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

1. (regional) 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

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

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

• IPA^(key): /bu.ˈre/

Noun

bure

1. ginger

References

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