buro

See also: buró, büro, büró, and Büro

English

Noun

buro (plural buros)

1. Nonstandard spelling of bureau.
   • 1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely‎^[1], Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:

     And I went up into the spare chamber, and sort o' fixed Philury's things to the best advantage; for I knew the neighbors would be in to look at 'em. And I was a standin' there as calm and happy as the buro or table, ...

   • 1902, Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date‎^[2], HTML edition, Univ. of North Carolina, published 1998:

     Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the buro to say their lessons.

   • 1998 May, Phil D. Zimmerman, “The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination”, in Antiques, volume 153, number 5, page 740:

     One can only speculate about the appearance of the "New-fashion buro" advertised for sale in the Boaton Gazette of May 1, 1750.

   • 1998 May 13, “More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched”, in ANC Dailey News Briefing‎^[3], archived from the original on 25 January 2022:

     … an employment buro said on Tuesday. The retrenchments took place between November last year and March 1998, the Employment Buro of Africa's regional manager, Chris Hechter said.

   • 2008 February 19, Alejandro López de Haro, Jr., “Fidel Castro Steps Down”, in Ground Report‎^[4], archived from the original on 26 April 2013:

     … a member of both the council of ministers and the Cuban Communist Party's political buro.

Translations

bureau — see bureau

Anagrams

• Bour, Bøur

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bureau, from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byˈrʊə̯/

Noun

buro (plural buro's)

1. desk
2. office

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bureau.

Noun

buro m (plural buroyow)

1. bureau, office

   Synonyms: offis, sodhva

Mutation

Mutation of buro

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
buro	vuro	unchanged	puro	furo, vuro*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• “buro” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byˈroː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bu‧ro

Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive burootje n)

1. superseded spelling of bureau

Istro-Romanian

Adjective

buro n

1. neuter singular of bur

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɔ/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Zagórze) IPA^(key): [ˈbu.rɔ]

• Rhymes: -urɔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Polish bury

Proto-Slavic *-o

Old Polish -o

Polish -o

Polish buro

From bury + -o.

Adverb

buro

1. (Zagórze) synonym of szaro / z niechęcią

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

buro f

1. vocative singular of bura

Further reading

• Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “buro”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎^[5] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Etymology

Derived from Latin būtȳrum (“butter”), from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon). Cognate with English butter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbu.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buro m (plural buros)

1. (Aragon) fuller's earth (fine white-blueish clay)

   Synonym: greda

Further reading

• “buro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Verb

buro

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of bära

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay budu. Compare Cebuano buro, Hiligaynon buro, Ilocano buro, Kapampangan buru, and Indonesian budu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

1. pickling (with salt or brine, usually done with fish, meat, or shrimp with rice)

   Synonyms: himol, tinama

2. anything that lingers in one place or state

Alternative forms

• boro — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

See also

• atsara
• bagoong
• balawbalaw
• sinisig

Adjective

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

1. pickled

Derived terms

• burong baboy
• burong baka
• burong hipon
• burong isda
• burong itlog
• buruhan
• mambuburo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)

1. ass; donkey

   Synonyms: asno, buriko

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾoʔ/ [ˈbuː.ɾoʔ]
    • Rhymes: -uɾoʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

burò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

1. a type of white worm that feeds on wounds, or lives in the intestines of humans or fish

Etymology 4

Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English as a semantic loan from English bureau, influenced in spelling by Spanish buró. Compare Cebuano buro. Doublet of biyuro.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈɾo/ [bʊˈɾo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)

1. bureau; a government office

   Synonym: kawanihan

Further reading

• “buro”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “buro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “fish”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.ɾo]

Noun

buro

1. a large shrimp

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from French bureau.

Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.

Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)

1. desk
2. office where records are kept
3. bureau

Further reading

• “buro”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011