buro
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]buro (plural buros)
- an office
- 1998 May 13, “More than 9000 Basotho Gold Miners Retrenched”, in ANC Dailey News Briefing[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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[4], 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.
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch bureau, from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.
Pronunciation
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[edit]buro (plural buro's)
Dutch
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[edit]buro n (plural buro's, diminutive burootje n)
Istro-Romanian
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[edit]buro n
Polish
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[edit]buro f
Swedish
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[edit]buro
- (pre-1940) plural past indicative of bära
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Malay budu. Compare Cebuano buro, Hiligaynon buro, Ilocano buro, Kapampangan buru, and Indonesian budu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -uɾo
- Syllabification: bu‧ro
Noun
[edit]buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
- pickling (with salt or brine, usually done with fish, meat, or shrimp with rice)
- anything that lingers in one place or state
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbuɾo/ [ˈbuː.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -uɾo
- Syllabification: bu‧ro
Noun
[edit]buro (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (zoology)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: bu‧ro
Noun
[edit]burò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pseudo-Hispanism, derived from English as a semantic loan from English bureau, influenced in spelling by Spanish buró. Compare Cebuano buro.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /buˈɾo/ [bʊˈɾo]
- Rhymes: -o
- Syllabification: bu‧ro
Noun
[edit]buró (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜇᜓ) (dated)
- bureau; a government office
- Synonym: kawanihan
Further reading
[edit]- “buro” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino[5], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buro
References
[edit]- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from French bureau.
Cognate with Dutch bureau, English bureau, German Büro.
Noun
[edit]buro n (plural buro's, diminutive buroke)
Further reading
[edit]- “buro”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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