buro

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See also: buró, büro, büró, and Büro

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bureau (desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize), from Old French burel (woolen cloth), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (coarse woolen cloth), French bourre (hair, fluff)), from Late Latin burra (wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, shabby garment).

Noun

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buro (plural buros)

  1. an office
    • 1998 May 13, “More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched”, in ANC Dailey News Briefing[1], retrieved 2012-09-14:
      … 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[2], archived from the original on 26 April 2013:
      … a member of both the council of ministers and the Cuban Communist Party's political buro.
  2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
    • 1902, Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date[3], HTML edition, Univ. of North Carolina, published 1998:
      Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the buro to say their lessons.
  3. (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
    • 1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely[4], 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, ...
    • 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.
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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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buro (plural buro's)

  1. desk
  2. office

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /byˈroː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: bu‧ro

Noun

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

  1. Superseded spelling of bureau.

Istro-Romanian

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Adjective

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buro n

  1. neuter singular of bur

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.rɔ/
  • Rhymes: -urɔ
  • Syllabification: bu‧ro

Noun

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buro f

  1. vocative singular of bura

Swedish

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Verb

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buro

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

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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

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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
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Adjective

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buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)

  1. pickled
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Spanish burro.

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Noun

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buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)

  1. ass; donkey
    Synonyms: asno, buriko

Etymology 3

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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

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

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Noun

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buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)

  1. bureau; a government office
    Synonym: kawanihan

Further reading

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  • buro at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[5], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
  • buro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “fish”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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buro

  1. a large shrimp

References

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

West Frisian

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Etymology

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Ultimately from French bureau.

Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.

Noun

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buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)

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

Further reading

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