# bur
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Alternative forms

* burr

### Etymology

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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### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /bɝ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /bɜː/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Scotland) IPA: /bʌr/
* (New Zealand) IPA: /bøː/
* (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /beː/
* (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /bɛː/
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
* Homophones: burr, Burr; birr (fern–fir–fur merger); bare, bear (both fair–fur merger)

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* buffalo bur
* buffalo-bur
* buffalo-bur nightshade
* bur block
* burdock
* burfish
* burgrass
* burlike
* bur marigold
* bur oak
* bur-reed
* burry
* burseed
* burweed
* butterbur
* cocklebur
* sandbur

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* RUB, bru, rub

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːr/, [b̥uːˀɐ̯], [b̥uɐ̯ˀ]
* Rhymes: -ur

### Noun

bur n (singular definite buret, plural indefinite bure)
* cage

#### Inflection
## Icelandic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʏːr/
* Rhymes: -ʏːr

### Noun

bur m (genitive singular burs, nominative plural burir)
* (poetic) son

#### Declension

$^1$Archaic but more common in practice. $^2$Regular but rare.
The accusative plural buru also exists, but is only used in the phrase eiga börn og buru.

#### Derived terms

* -bur

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dw-enos.

### Adjective

bur m (feminine burĕ, neuter buro)
* good

## Javanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch boor (“drill”).

### Noun

bur
* drill

## Latvian
### Verb

bur
* inflection of burt:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of burt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of burt

## Maay
### Noun

bur
* flour

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic بُور (būr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːr/
* Rhymes: -uːr

### Noun

bur m (plural bwar, diminutive bura)
* meadow, pastureland

## Middle English
### Noun

bur
* (Early Middle English) Alternative form of bour

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse búr.

### Pronunciation

IPA: [bʉʷːɾ]

### Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura or burene)
* cage
* goal (sports)

#### Derived terms

* burhøne, burhøns

### References

“bur” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse búr.

#### Noun

bur n (definite singular buret, indefinite plural bur, definite plural bura)
* cage
* goal (sports)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bur
* present of bu

### References

“bur” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą. Cognate with Old Saxon būr, Old High German būr (German Bauer (“birdcage”)), Old Norse búr (Swedish bur).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːr/

### Noun

būr n
* private chamber, room

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bour, boure, bowre, bowur, bur (Early Middle English)
** English: bower
** Scots: bour

## Old Frisian
### Noun

būr m
* a peasant, farmer

#### Inflection
## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“dwelling”), whence also Old English būr, Old Norse búr.

#### Alternative forms

* pūr

#### Noun

būr n
* dwelling, quarters, bower
    brūd in būrea bride in the bower

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: būr
** German: Bauer (“birdcage”)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

būr m
* peasant, farmer

##### Derived terms

* gibūro
* gibūr

##### Descendants

* ⇒ 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)

## Old Norse
### Noun

bur
* accusative/dative singular of burr

## Old Saxon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz, whence also Old English būr, Old Norse búr.

#### Noun

būr m
* neighbour
* inhabitant

##### Descendants

* Low German: Buer, Boer

### Etymology 2

Same as the masculine noun.

#### Noun

būr n
* dwelling

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᛒᚢᚱ

### Etymology

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

### Noun

bur n
* dwelling, residence
* storehouse
* room, chamber
* cage

#### Descendants

* Swedish: bur c

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbur/
* Rhymes: -ur
* Syllabification: bur

### Noun

bur f
* genitive plural of bura

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

bur m or f by sense (plural bures)
* Archaic form of bóer.

## Romagnol
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *burius, compare Italian buio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːr/

### Noun

bur m
* 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, […]

## Sumerian
### Romanization

bur
* Romanization of 𒁓 (bur)

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʉːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʉːr

### Noun

bur c
* a cage
* (slang) a prison, a jail, an arrest
    att sitta i buren
       to be imprisoned

#### Related terms

* bura in

### References

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

## Veps
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian бу́рый (búryj).

### Adjective

bur
* brown

#### Inflection
### Noun

bur
* brown

#### Inflection
### References

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

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /bɨːr/
* (South Wales) IPA: /biːr/

### Adjective

bur
* Soft mutation of pur.

### Mutation

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

## Zaghawa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʊɾ/

### Adjective

bur
* little

### Noun

bur
* one's own child
    Bur egi ― My child
* the child of a woman's co-wife
* (by extension) the child of one's brothers or cousins

### References

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