buro
English
noun
Definitions
- an office
- a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
- (US) a chest of drawerschest of drawers for clothes
Etymology
Borrowed from French bureau (desk, office, earlier coarse cloth, baize) derived from Old French burel (woolen cloth, reddish, a kind of coarse woollen cloth) derived 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
- *burrio, *burrionem Latin
- *burrionem Latin
- *burrula Latin
- borago Latin
- burra Latin
- būrra Latin
- Büro German
- borra Italian
- bureau Dutch, Flemish
- bourre French
- bourrelet French
- bourru French
- buraliste French
- bureau French
- bureaucratie French
- bureautique French
- бюро́ Russian
- borra Spanish, Castilian
- buró Spanish, Castilian
- byrå Norwegian Bokmål
- birô Portuguese
- borra Portuguese
- byrå Swedish
- biuro Polish
- byrå Norwegian Nynorsk
- burel Middle English
- boure Old French
- bourras Old French
- bourre Old French
- burel Old French
- 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