bour

See also: Bour

Middle English

bour (plural boures)

A residence, house, or dwelling.
A bedroom or chamber (especially of a woman).
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 99, verso:
  fful sooty was hire bour / and eek hire halle / In which she eet / ful many a sklendre meel
  Her room was really sooty, and so was her hall; / there she ate plenty of lean meals
(figuratively) Something's resting place.
(rare) A pen or stall for an animal.

bour

Inherited from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). It may have passed through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form or was influenced by bubulus; cf. the form bobulum. Compare also Albanian buall. Doublet of bivol, which came through a Slavic source.

bour m (plural bouri)

Declension of bour