# bursa
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursa (“purse”), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa); compare purse and bourse, which are doublets.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbɜːsə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈbɝsə/

### Noun

bursa (plural bursae or bursæ)
* (anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
** 1899, Roswell Park, A Treatise on Surgery, page 402:A bursa over the anterior aspect of the upper end of the tibia, between the patellar tendon and the tubercle of the tibia, is sometimes enlarged, and may be mistaken for synovitis of the joint.
** 2004, Dicken Weatherby, Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective, page 247:Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, which results in pain, tenderness, and stiffness and in some cases, swelling and redness.
** 2011, Neeta V. Kulkarni, Clinical Anatomy (A Problem Solving Approach), page 116:A bursa may be present deep to coracobrachialis tendon.
* A diverticulum on the cloaca of young birds, which serves as a lymphatic organ and as part of the immune system, but which atrophies as the bird ages.
** 1898, Frank Evers Beddard, The Structure and Classification of Birds, page 36:The general relations of the bursa to the cloaca are shown in the two accompanying figures.
** 1943, Charles Milton Kirkpatrick, Growth, Development, and Endocrine Studies of the Ring-necked Pheasant, with Special Reference to the Bursa of Fabricius, page 37:The dark, crescentic area is the opening of the bursa, from which the covering membrane is temporarily withdrawn.
** 2009, Julius M. Cruse, Robert E. Lewis, Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology:The bursa is located near the terminal portion of the cloaca and, like the thymus, is a lymphoepithelial organ.
* Any of various pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
** 1978, V.M. Ivashkin, Helminths of Farm Animals of the Mongolian People's Republic, page 16:That portion of the dilated vas deferens which lies outside the cavity of the genital bursa is called the external seminal vesicle .
** 2010, Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals, page 156:In other groups, all members of each clade lack a bursa copulatrix. Conversely, some taxa such as many Dendronotina may lack a receptaculum but possess a bursa.
** 2017, Fatik Baran Mandal, Biology of Non-Chordates, page 185:The vagina extends anteriorly over the dorsal side of seminal vesicle to the sperm-filled seminal bursa.
* (religion) A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
** 1853, George Lewis, The Bible, the Missal, and the Breviary, page 358:In solemn mass the deacon brings the book of the Missal to the side of the epistle, then goes backward behind the celebrant; the sub-deacon, indeed, goes to the gospel side, where he cleanses the chalice, fits it with the purifacatory, covers it with the paten and pall, folds the corporal, replaces it in the bursa, and puts it in the chalice covered with a veil, which he places on the altar or over the credentia, as before.
** 1890, “The "Corporale" and "Palla"”, in American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 3, page 419:It is forbidden to leave the corporal, when not in use, exposed upon the altar, or to carry it in one's hands without a covering. A bursa is always to be used for that purpose .
** 1995, Godefridus J. C. Snoek, Medieval Piety from Relics to the Eucharist, page 90:Just like relics, the Eucharist was taken, enclosed in a bursa or pendula as a means of protection not only on journeys overland but - and especially - when travellers ventured onto the whimsical sea.

#### Derived terms

* bursal
* bursaless
* bursalogy
* bursa of Fabricius
* bursectomy
* bursiform
* bursitis
* bursocentesis
* bursography
* bursopathy
* gastrocnemiosemimembranosus bursa
* gastrocnemio-semimembranosus bursa
* omental bursa

#### Related terms

* bursar
* bursary
* disburse
* reimburse

#### See also

* Bursa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Subra, Baurs, Braus

## Indonesian
### Etymology

* Learned borrowing from Latin bursa, from the Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
* Semantic loan from Dutch beurs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbʊr.sa]
* Hyphenation: bur‧sa

### Noun

bursa
* (business, economics) exchange: a place for conducting trading.
    Bursa Efek Indonesia ― Indonesia Stock Exchange
* (by extension, figurative, colloquial) election.
    Synonym: pemilihan
    bursa capres ― presidential candidate election

#### Derived terms

* bursa berjangka
* bursa efek
* bursa kerja
* bursa komoditas
* bursa komoditi
* bursa saham
* bursa sekuritas
* bursa tenaga kerja
* bursa uang
* bursa valuta asing
* bursa wisata

### Noun

bursa
* (anatomy) bursa, any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.

### Further reading

* “bursa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Medieval Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

### Noun

bursa m (genitive singular bursa, nominative plural bursaí)
* burse; purse

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
bursa
bursaí
vocative
a bhursaí
a bhursaa
genitive
bursaí
bursa
dative
bursa
bursaí
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an bursa
na bursaí
genitive
an bhursaí
na mbursa
dative
leis an mbursa don bhursa
leis na bursaí :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bursa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Kanuri
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bʊ̄rsá]

### Noun

bursa
* (Kanembu) cloud

#### Synonyms

* fowo/fogo/fofo (Kanuri)

### Further reading

* Francis Jouannet, Le kanembou des Ngaldoukou: langue saharienne parlée sur les rives septentrionales du lac Tchad: phonématique et prosodie (1982, Paris: SELAF)
* Kakadu Kanembu Kərânei: Kakadu 2 (UNESCO)

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* byrsa

### Etymology

Late Latin (4th century); from the Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈbur.sa/, [ˈbʊrs̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈbur.sa/, [ˈbursä]

### Noun

bursa f (genitive bursae); first declension
* (originally Late Latin) oxhide, animal skin
* (by extension, Medieval Latin) purse, especially one made of skin or leather
* (Medieval Latin) supply of money, funds
* (Medieval Latin) pension

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* bursārius
* bursiformis
* bursius
* imbursō
* rembursō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: bossa, borsa
* Dalmatian: buarsa
* → English: bursa, purse (in part, through Old English)
* → German: Bursche
* → Irish: bursa
* Italian: borsa
** → Amharic: ቦርሳ (borsa)
** → Arabic: بورصة
** → Armenian: բորսա (borsa)
** → Ottoman Turkish: پارسه (parsa), پارسا (parsa)
*** Turkish: parsa
** → Ottoman Turkish: بورسه (borsa), بورسا (borsa)
*** Turkish: borsa
** → Slovene: borša
** → Tigrinya: ቦርሳ (borsa)
* Old French: borse
** Middle French: bourse
*** French: bourse
**** → English: bourse
**** → Persian: بورس (burs)
**** → Romanian: bursă
**** → Turkish: burs
** Norman: bourse
*** English: burse
** → Middle Dutch: borse
*** Dutch: beurs
**** Afrikaans: beurs
**** Negerhollands: beers
**** → Danish: børs
**** → German: Börse
**** → Norwegian: børs
**** → Papiamentu: bèshi, bersji
**** → Russian: би́ржа (bírža) (possibly via German) (see there for further descendants)
**** → Swedish: börs
**** → West Frisian: beurs
* Old Galician-Portuguese: bolssa
** Galician: bolsa
** Portuguese: bolsa
*** → English: bulse
* Romanian: boașă, boașe
* Romansch: bursa, buorsa
* Sicilian: bursa, vursa
* Spanish: bolsa
* → Ukrainian: бу́рса (búrsa)

### References

* bursa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* “bursa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

## Northern Sami
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin bursa. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈpurːsa/

### Noun

bursa
* purse (for money)
* wallet
* stock market

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bursa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbur.sa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ursa
* Syllabification: bur‧sa
* Homophone: Bursa

### Noun

bursa f
* (dated, education) boarding house (housing for students at a boarding school)
    Synonym: internat
* (Roman Catholicism) bursa (parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence)

#### Derived terms

* bursalny
* bursowy
* bursak
* bursarz
* bursiak
* bursiarz
* bursista

### Further reading

* bursa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bursa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of bolsa.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbuʁ.sɐ/ [ˈbuh.sɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbuʁ.sɐ/ [ˈbuh.sɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈbuɾ.sɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈbuʁ.sɐ/ [ˈbuχ.sɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbuɻ.sa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbuɾ.sɐ/
* Hyphenation: bur‧sa

### Noun

bursa f (plural bursas)
* (anatomy) bursa (sac where muscle slides across bone)

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* buorsa (Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

### Noun

bursa f (plural bursas)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) purse
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) exchange

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bursa. Doublet of bolsa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuɾsa/ [ˈbuɾ.sa]
* Rhymes: -uɾsa
* Syllabification: bur‧sa

### Noun

bursa f (plural bursas)
* (anatomy) bursa

#### Related terms

* bolsa
* bursitis

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bursa.

### Noun

bursa c
* (anatomy) bursa
    Synonym: slemsäck

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | bursa | bursas |
| singular | definite | bursan | bursans |
| plural | indefinite | bursor | bursors |
| plural | definite | bursorna | bursornas |

### References

* bursa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bursa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* arbus, brusa, busar