bourre
French
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Any material used for stuffing.
- Tufts or masses of hair removed from the skin of short-haired animals before tanning.
- (textile) Waste from hackling or spinning of wool or silk; linters, flock.
- (uncountable) Down or floss on plants, especially buds; burr.
- A wad for use in firearms or cannons.
- (slang) A cop.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French boure inherited from Latin burra.
Origin
Latin
burra
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- borrel English
- bureau English
- bureaucracy English
- bureaugamous English
- bureaugamy English
- bureausis English
- burel English
- burlap English
- buro English
- multibureau English
- subbureau English
- telebureau English
- *burrio, *burrionem Latin
- *burrionem Latin
- *burrula Latin
- borago Latin
- burra Latin
- būrra Latin
- Büro German
- borra Italian
- burbero Italian
- bureau Dutch, Flemish
- bourrelet French
- bourru French
- buraliste French
- bureau French
- bureaucratie French
- bureautique French
- бюро́ Russian
- borra Spanish, Castilian
- burlete Spanish, Castilian
- buró Spanish, Castilian
- byrå Norwegian Bokmål
- birô Portuguese
- borra Portuguese
- byrå Swedish
- biuro Polish
- byrå Norwegian Nynorsk
- burel Middle English
- biúró Irish
- boure Old French
- bourras Old French
- bourre Old French
- burel Old French
- ब्यूरो Hindi
- borra Galician
- burel Galician
- birou Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- бюро Bulgarian
- ဗီရို Burmese
- ဗျူရို Burmese
- burel Middle French
- ביוראָ Yiddish
- биро Macedonian
- büró Ladino
- büro Crimean Tatar
- ibiro Kinyarwanda
- biló Lingala
- biro Ngazidja Comorian