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bure

See also: Bure, burĕ, burė, burę, and буре

English

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Etymology

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Noun

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bure (plural bures)

  1. A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

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Afrikaans

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Noun

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bure

  1. plural of buur

Champenois

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Noun

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bure

  1. (Auve) butter

References

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  • Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

Danish

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Noun

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bure n

  1. indefinite plural of bur

French

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Etymology

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From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /byʁ/
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Noun

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bure f (plural bures)

  1. frieze (cloth)
  2. habit (monk's robe)

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin bura.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: bù‧re

Noun

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bure f (plural buri)

  1. beam of a plough

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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būre

  1. dative singular of būr

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin butyrum.

Noun

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bure oblique singular, m (oblique plural bures, nominative singular bures, nominative plural bure)

  1. butter

Descendants

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  • Middle French: burre, beurre (regional)
    • French: beurre (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: buure, burre, bür
  • → Italian: burro
  • → Neapolitan: burro
    Tarantino: burre
  • → Sicilian: vurru

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Old High German

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Noun

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būre

  1. dative singular of būr

Polish

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Adjective

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bure

  1. inflection of bury:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Unknown. First attested in the 17th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bûre/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧re

Noun

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bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

  1. (regional) barrel

Declension

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Declension of bure
singular plural
nominative bure burad
genitive bureta buradi
dative buretu buradi
accusative bure burad
vocative bure buradi
locative buretu buradi
instrumental buretom buradi

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bure”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 97

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic بَرِيء (barīʔ).

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Adjective

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bure (invariable)

  1. free (obtainable without payment)

Adverb

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bure

  1. in vain; pointlessly; fruitlessly

Swedish

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Verb

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bure

  1. (dated) past subjunctive of bära

West Makian

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Noun

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bure

  1. ginger

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  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[2], Pacific linguistics
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