Galician edit

 
As Burgas, Ourense

Etymology edit

Debated. Documented as burgana in Medieval Latin local documents. Either from Vulgar Latin, or from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (to boil).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

burga f (plural burgas)

  1. hot spring

Usage notes edit

Whilst toponomy shows that once this word was in use in most of Galicia, today it is mostly reduced to name the hot springs of the city of Ourense.

References edit

  • burgaa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • burga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • burga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.


Italian edit

Etymology edit

Unknown.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

burga f (plural burghe)

  1. a kind of basket filled with stones and used to prevent the erosion of rivers banks

Further reading edit

  • burga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Romansch edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin purgō, purgāre (clean; purge).

Noun edit

burga f

  1. (medicine, Sursilvan) diarrhea

Synonyms edit

Uzbek edit

Other scripts
Cyrillic бурга (burga)
Latin burga
Perso-Arabic

Noun edit

burga (plural burgalar)

  1. flea

Declension edit