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bur

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/B language code for Burmese.

• burr

From Middle English burre, from a North Germanic language, such as Danish burre (“bur, burdock”). See also burr. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɝ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɜː(ɹ)/

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bur (plural burs)

1. A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
2. Any of several plants having such husks.
3. A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
4. Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).

• RUB, bru, rub

From Old Norse búr.

• IPA^(key): /buːr/, [b̥uːˀɐ̯], [b̥uɐ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -ur

bur n (singular definite buret, plural indefinite bure)

1. cage

From Old Norse burr, from Proto-Germanic *buriz. Cognate with Old English byre (“descendant, son”).

• IPA^(key): /pʏːr/
• Rhymes: -ʏːr

bur m (genitive singular burs, nominative plural burir)

1. (poetic) son

The accusative plural buru also exists, but is only used in the phrase eiga börn og buru.

• -bur

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dw-enos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

bur m (feminine burĕ, neuter buro)

1. good

Borrowed from Dutch boor (“drill”).

bur

1. drill

bur

1. inflection of burt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of burt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of burt

bur

1. flour

From Arabic بُور‎ (būr).

• IPA^(key): /buːr/
• Rhymes: -uːr

bur m (plural bwar, diminutive bura)

1. meadow, pastureland

bur

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bour

From Old Norse búr.

IPA^(key): [bʉʷːɾ]

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1. cage
2. goal (sports)

• burhøne, burhøns

“bur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse búr.

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1. cage
2. goal (sports)

bur

1. present of bu

“bur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (German Bauer (“birdcage”)), Old Norse búr (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)).

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

būr n

1. private chamber, room

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būr m

1. a peasant, farmer

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From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“dwelling”), whence also Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old Norse búr.

• pūr

būr n

1. dwelling, quarters, bower

   brūd in būre

   a bride in the bower

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  • German: Bauer (“birdcage”)

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“inhabitant”).

būr m

1. peasant, farmer

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• gibūro
• gibūr

• ⇒ Middle High German: būre (“neighbor, farmer, peasant”)
  • German: Bauer (“farmer”)
    • → English: bauer; bower
    • → Polish: bauer
    • → Serbo-Croatian: pȁor, па̏ор
  • Luxembourgish: Bauer
  • Mòcheno: pauer
  • Pennsylvania German: Bauer
  • Yiddish: פּויער‎ (poyer)

bur

1. accusative/dative singular of burr

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz, whence also Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old Norse búr.

būr m

1. neighbour
2. inhabitant

• Low German: Buer, Boer

Same as the masculine noun.

būr n

1. dwelling

• ᛒᚢᚱ

From Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą.

bur n

1. dwelling, residence
2. storehouse
3. room, chamber
4. cage

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• IPA^(key): /bur/
• Rhymes: -ur
• Syllabification: bur

bur f

1. genitive plural of bura

• Hyphenation: bur

bur m or f by sense (plural bures)

1. Archaic form of bóer.

From Vulgar Latin *burius, compare Italian buio.

• IPA^(key): /buːr/

bur m

1. darkness (lack of light)
   • December 2007, Nevio Spadoni, Guido Bianchi, Urazion in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 9:

     Te, che t’vid / la luš int e’ mi bur, […]

     You, who sees / the light in my darkness, […]

bur

1. Romanization of 𒁓 (bur)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old Norse búr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą.

• IPA^(key): /bʉːr/

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• Rhymes: -ʉːr

bur c

1. a cage
2. (slang) a prison, a jail, an arrest

   att sitta i buren

   to be imprisoned

• bura in

• bur in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bur in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Russian бу́рый (búryj).

bur

1. brown

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bur

1. brown

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• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “бурый”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /bɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /biːr/

bur

1. Soft mutation of pur.

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• IPA^(key): /bʊɾ/

bur

1. little

bur

1. one's own child

   Bur egi ― My child

2. the child of a woman's co-wife
3. (by extension) the child of one's brothers or cousins

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad