# buro
## English
### Alternative forms

* bureau

### Etymology

Borrowed from French bureau (“desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize”), from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).

### Noun

buro (plural buros)
* an office
** 1998 May 13, “More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched”, in ANC Dailey News Briefing‎, retrieved 2012-09-14:… an employment buro said on Tuesday. The retrenchments took place between November last year and March 1998, the Employment Buro of Africa's regional manager, Chris Hechter said.
** 2008 February 19, Alejandro López de Haro, Jr., “Fidel Castro Steps Down”, in Ground Report‎, archived from the original on 26 April 2013:… a member of both the council of ministers and the Cuban Communist Party's political buro.
* a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
** 1902, Bill Arp, From the Uncivil War to Date‎, HTML edition, Univ. of North Carolina, published 1998:Mrs. Arp opens her school and stands 'em up by the buro to say their lessons.
* (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
** 1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely‎, Online edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:And I went up into the spare chamber, and sort o' fixed Philury's things to the best advantage; for I knew the neighbors would be in to look at 'em. And I was a standin' there as calm and happy as the buro or table, ...
** 1998 May, Phil D. Zimmerman, “The Stratford, Connecticut, bureau table: A re-examination”, in Antiques, volume 153, number 5, page 740:One can only speculate about the appearance of the "New-fashion buro" advertised for sale in the Boaton Gazette of May 1, 1750.

#### Related terms

* burocracy
* burocrat
* burocratic
* burel

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Bour, Bøur

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bureau, from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /byˈrʊə̯/

### Noun

buro (plural buro's)
* desk
* office

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /byˈroː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bu‧ro

### Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive burootje n)
* Superseded spelling of bureau.

## Istro-Romanian
### Adjective

buro n
* neuter singular of bur

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.rɔ/
* Rhymes: -urɔ
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

### Noun

buro f
* vocative singular of bura

## Spanish
### Etymology

Derived from Latin būtȳrum (“butter”), from Ancient Greek βούτυρον (boúturon). Cognate with English butter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbu.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -uɾo
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

### Noun

buro m (plural buros)
* (Aragon) fuller's earth (fine white-blueish clay)
    Synonym: greda

### Further reading

* “buro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Verb

buro
* (pre-1940) plural past indicative of bära

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay budu. Compare Cebuano buro, Hiligaynon buro, Ilocano buro, Kapampangan buru, and Indonesian budu.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -uɾo
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

#### Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
* pickling (with salt or brine, usually done with fish, meat, or shrimp with rice)
    Synonyms: himol, tinama
* anything that lingers in one place or state

##### Alternative forms

* boro — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

##### See also

* atsara
* bagoong
* balawbalaw
* sinisig

#### Adjective

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
* pickled

##### Derived terms

* burong baboy
* burong baka
* burong hipon
* burong isda
* burong itlog
* buruhan
* mambuburo

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -uɾo
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

#### Noun

buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)
* ass; donkey
    Synonyms: asno, buriko

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈbuɾoʔ/ [ˈbuː.ɾoʔ]
*** Rhymes: -uɾoʔ
** IPA: /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo] (obsolete)
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

#### Noun

burò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
* a type of white worm that feeds on wounds, or lives in the intestines of humans or fish

### Etymology 4

Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English as a semantic loan from English bureau, influenced in spelling by Spanish buró. Compare Cebuano buro.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /buˈɾo/ [bʊˈɾo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: bu‧ro

#### Noun

buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)
* bureau; a government office
    Synonym: kawanihan

### Further reading

* “buro”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “buro”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “fish”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.ɾo]

### Noun

buro
* a large shrimp

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## West Frisian
### Etymology

Ultimately from French bureau.
Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.

### Noun

buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)
* desk
* office where records are kept
* bureau

#### Further reading

* “buro”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011