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buron

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French buron, from Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (cabin, hut), from Frankish *būr (dwelling, residence), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (room, chamber, dwelling), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (to be, become, live, dwell). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (room, cage), English bower, Swedish bur (hutch, coop, cage). Doublet of bower.

Noun

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buron (plural burons)

  1. (often italicized) A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.
    • 1996, Simone A. Abram, “Reactions to Tourism: A View from the Deep Green Heart of France”, in Jeremy Boissevain, editor, Coping with Tourists[1], →ISBN, page 194:
      According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *bhrē̆u- (wellspring), ultimately from *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (to bear). Compare Old High German brunno (wellspring), burjan (to push up, raise), Old English byrian (to come up, occur).

Verb

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buron (aorist burova, participle buruar)

  1. (it) springs, gushs, flows
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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (cabin, hut), from Frankish *būr (dwelling, residence), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (room, chamber, dwelling), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (to be, become, live, dwell). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (room, cage), English bower, Swedish bur (hutch, coop, cage).

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Noun

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buron m (plural burons)

  1. a traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Equivalent to buru +‎ -an, from Javanese ꦧꦸꦫꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (buron). Doublet of buruan.

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Noun

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burón (first-person possessive buronku, second-person possessive buronmu, third-person possessive buronnya)

  1. fugitive

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