# buru
## Bambara
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [búruù]

### Noun

buru
* (music) horn

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Basque
### Alternative forms

* büü (Souletin)

### Etymology

Unknown.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buɾu/ [bu.ɾu]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uɾu, -u
* Hyphenation: bu‧ru

### Noun

buru inan
* (anatomy) head
* (figurative) intellect, judgment

#### Derived terms

* asteburu
* belaunburu
* buru jaso
* buru joan
* burugain
* burugogor
* buruhandi
* buruhezur
* burujabe
* buruketa
* burukomin
* burumuin
* geltokiburu (“stationmaster”)
* helburu
* izenburu (“title”)
* lauburu

### References

* ↑ “buru” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “buru”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “buru”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Dama (Sierra Leone)
### Noun

buru
* house

### References

* Dalby, T. D. P. (1963) “The extinct language of Dama”, in Sierra Leone Language Review, volume 2, Freetown: Fourah Bay College, pages 50–54

## Gamilaraay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buɻu/

### Noun

buru
* ball
* ball game
* balls
* testicles

### References

Dhiirrala Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Language Program St Joseph School Po Box 125 Walgett NSW 2368 Australia

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay buru, from Proto-Malayic *buru, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buʀaw, from Proto-Austronesian *buʀaw (“drive off, chase away, expel”).

### Verb

buru
* to hunt

### References

* “buru” 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.

## Javanese
### Verb

buru
* to hunt

## Latvian
### Verb

buru
* first-person singular present indicative of burt

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *buru, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buʀaw, from Proto-Austronesian *buʀaw (“drive off, chase away, expel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu.ru/
* Rhymes: -uru, -ru, -u

### Verb

buru (Jawi spelling بورو)
* to hunt

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* pemburu [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* pemburuan [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peN- + -an)
* perburu [causative passive] (peR-)
* perburuan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)
* buruan [resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (-an)
* memburu [agent focus] (meN-)
* memburu-buru [reduplication + agent focus] (redup + meN-)
* memburu-burukan [reduplication + agent focus + causative benefactive] (redup + meN- + -kan)
* diburu [patient focus] (di-)
* diburu-buru [reduplication + patient focus] (redup + di-)
* terburu [agentless action] (teR-)
* terburu-buru [reduplication + agentless action] (redup + teR-)
* keburu [passive] (ke-)
* berburu [stative / habitual] (beR-)
* berburu-buru [reduplication + stative / habitual] (redup + beR-)
* buru-buru [reduplication] (redup)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: buru

### Further reading

* “buru” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Old Javanese
### Verb

buru
* to hunt

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boer.

### Noun

buru
* farmer
* A white Surinamese person of Dutch descent, in particular a descendant of nineteenth-century agricultural settlers.

#### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: bulman, bulmang, buru
* → Dutch: boeroe

## Sundanese
### Verb

buru (Sundanese script ᮘᮥᮛᮥ)
* to hunt

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbu.ɾu]

### Verb

buru
* (stative) to be rough

#### Conjugation
### References

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

## Yogad
### Noun

burú
* plant hair

## Zarma
### Noun

buru
* bread

### References

* David Bellama, Cours de Zarma pour le Niger: trainee's book (1976)