purse
English
/pɜːs/, /pɝs/
noun
Definitions
- A small bag for carrying money.
- (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- (historical) A specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English purse inherited from Old English purs (purse) inherited from Proto-Germanic *pusô (bag, scrip, sack, wallet) derived from Proto-Indo-European *būs- (swell, stuff) derived from Latin bursa (purse) derived from Ancient Greek βύρσα (hide, wine-skin, leather, skin stripped off a hide, skin stripped off, wineskin, bag).
Origin
Ancient Greek
βύρσα
Gloss
hide, wine-skin, leather, skin stripped off a hide, skin stripped off, wineskin, bag
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
革
Emoji
🥷
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bourse English
- bursar English
- bursarship English
- cut English
- cutpurse English
- dispurse English
- man English
- manpurse English
- pick English
- pickpurse English
- proud English
- purse-proud English
- purseful English
- purseless English
- purselike English
- purser English
- pursership English
- pursestring English
- string English
- unpurse English
- bursa Latin
- bursarius Latin
- bursiformis Latin
- bursārius Latin
- Bursche German
- borsa Italian
- beurs Dutch, Flemish
- bourse French
- boursette French
- boursier French
- débourser French
- rembourser French
- bolsa Spanish, Castilian
- bursa Spanish, Castilian
- βύρσα Ancient Greek
- βύρσινος Ancient Greek
- βῡρσα Ancient Greek
- *būs- Proto-Indo-European
- børs Norwegian Bokmål
- pose Norwegian Bokmål
- *pusô Proto-Germanic
- børs Norwegian Nynorsk
- pose Norwegian Nynorsk
- purs Old English
- pusa Old English
- pikepurse Middle English
- purse Middle English
- pursfull Middle English
- posi Old Norse
- affaldspose Danish
- pose Danish
- skraldepose Danish
- tepose Danish
- بورصة Arabic
- borse Old French
- bourse Old French
- borsa Catalan, Valencian
- bossa Catalan, Valencian
- posi Icelandic
- boș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bursa Indonesian
- bourse Norman
- bourse Middle French
- bolssa Old Portuguese
- bursa Northern Sami
- posi Old Swedish
- buorsa Romansh
- bursa Romansh
- sparán Middle Irish
- buarsa Dalmatian
- bursa LL
- bursa ML