porvari
Finnish
pronunciation
Definitions
- (historical) merchant, shopowner
- (politics) a person having bourgeois opinions; a bourgeois
- (politics) bourgeois, capitalist
- (in compounds) bourgeois, bourgeoisie, right-wing, non-socialist, conservative
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish borgare (bourgeois) derived from French bourgeois (a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate).
Origin
French
bourgeois
Gloss
a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bourgeois English
- hallitus Finnish
- pikkuporvaristo Finnish
- poroporvari Finnish
- poroporvarillinen Finnish
- porvarihallitus Finnish
- porvarillinen Finnish
- porvarillisesti Finnish
- porvarillistaa Finnish
- porvarillistua Finnish
- porvarillisuus Finnish
- porvaristo Finnish
- terva Finnish
- tervaporvari Finnish
- bourgeois German
- bourgeois Dutch, Flemish
- bourg French
- bourgeois French
- bourgeoisie French
- буржуа Russian
- буржуазный Russian
- буржуй Russian
- borg Swedish
- borgare Swedish
- borgarkrig Swedish
- borgarråd Swedish
- medborgare Swedish
- småborgare Swedish
- ブルジョア Japanese
- buržoa Czech
- برجوازي Arabic
- borgeis Old French
- burgeis Old French
- borgár Northern Sami