buro
Afrikaans
/byˈrʊə̯/
noun
Definitions
- desk
- office
Etymology
Inherited from Dutch, Flemish bureau (office, bureau, desk, agency) derived from French bureau (desk, office, earlier coarse cloth, baize) derived from Middle French burel derived from Old French burel (woolen cloth, reddish, a kind of coarse woollen cloth).
Origin
Old French
burel
Gloss
woolen cloth, reddish, a kind of coarse woollen cloth
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- borrel English
- bureau English
- buro English
- burra Latin
- būrra Latin
- Büro German
- bureau Dutch, Flemish
- bureaublad Dutch, Flemish
- bureaula Dutch, Flemish
- bureaulamp Dutch, Flemish
- bureaustoel Dutch, Flemish
- hoofdbureau Dutch, Flemish
- huwelijksbureau Dutch, Flemish
- politiebureau Dutch, Flemish
- reclamebureau Dutch, Flemish
- reisbureau Dutch, Flemish
- uitzendbureau Dutch, Flemish
- buraliste French
- bureau French
- bureaucratie French
- bureautique French
- бюро́ Russian
- buró Spanish, Castilian
- byrå Norwegian Bokmål
- birô Portuguese
- byrå Swedish
- biuro Polish
- byrå Norwegian Nynorsk
- burel Middle English
- burel Old French
- burel Galician
- birou Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- biro Indonesian
- hopbiro Indonesian
- bureel Middle Dutch
- 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