bure

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bure (plural bures)

1. A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

• uber-, buer, Uber, ebru, erub, Rueb, rube, Rube, über-, Brue, uber, Reub

bure

1. plural of buur

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bure

1. (Auve) butter

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109

bure n

1. indefinite plural of bur

From Latin burra, nominative feminine singular of burrus.

• IPA^(key): /byʁ/

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bure f (plural bures)

1. frieze (cloth)
2. habit (monk's robe)

• “bure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Latin bura.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: bù‧re

bure f (plural buri)

1. beam of a plough

• Urbe, urbe

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.re/

būre

1. dative singular of būr

• burre

From Latin butyrum.

bure oblique singular, m (oblique plural bures, nominative singular bures, nominative plural bure)

1. butter

• Middle French: burre, beurre (regional)
  • French: beurre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: buure, burre, bür
• → Italian: burro
• → Neapolitan: burro

  Tarantino: burre

• → Sicilian: vurru

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 663
• “beurre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

būre

1. dative singular of būr

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.rɛ/
• Rhymes: -urɛ
• Syllabification: bu‧re
• Homophone: burę

bure

1. inflection of bury:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Unknown. First attested in the 17th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bûre/
• Hyphenation: bu‧re

bȕre n (Cyrillic spelling бу̏ре, diminutive burénce)

1. (regional) barrel

Borrowed from Arabic بَرِيء (barīʔ).

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bure (invariable)

1. free (obtainable without payment)

bure

1. in vain; pointlessly; fruitlessly

bure

1. (dated) past subjunctive of bära

• IPA^(key): /bu.ˈre/

bure

1. ginger

• James Collins (1982), Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[2], Pacific linguistics