burja

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *buřa, akin to Bulgarian and Russian буря (burja), Serbo-Croatian bura, Slovak búrka and búrať (“to crush”). Non-Slavic cognates include Old Norse byrr (“fair wind”), Latin furō (“I rage, rave”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “to stir, palpitate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /búrja/

Noun

búrja f

1. bora (wind)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	búrja
gen. sing.	búrje
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	búrja	búrji	búrje
genitive (rodȋlnik)	búrje	búrij	búrij
dative (dajȃlnik)	búrji	búrjama	búrjam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	búrjo	búrji	búrje
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	búrji	búrjah	búrjah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	búrjo	búrjama	búrjami

Further reading

• “burja”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “burja”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references