Galician

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As Burgas, Ourense

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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burga f (plural burgas)

  1. hot spring

Usage notes

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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

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “burgaa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • burga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • burga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.


Italian

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Etymology

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Unknown.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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burga f (plural burghe)

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

Further reading

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

Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin purgō, purgāre (clean; purge).

Noun

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burga f

  1. (medicine, Sursilvan) diarrhea

Synonyms

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Uzbek

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

Noun

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burga (plural burgalar)

  1. flea

Declension

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