bureau
Dutch (Brabantic)
/byˈroː/
noun
Definitions
- desk
- office
Etymology
Borrowed 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
- blad Dutch, Flemish
- bureaublad Dutch, Flemish
- bureaubladachtergrond Dutch, Flemish
- bureaula Dutch, Flemish
- bureaulamp Dutch, Flemish
- bureaustoel Dutch, Flemish
- hoofd Dutch, Flemish
- hoofdbureau Dutch, Flemish
- huwelijk Dutch, Flemish
- huwelijksbureau Dutch, Flemish
- la Dutch, Flemish
- lamp Dutch, Flemish
- politie Dutch, Flemish
- politiebureau Dutch, Flemish
- reclame Dutch, Flemish
- reclamebureau Dutch, Flemish
- reis Dutch, Flemish
- reisbureau Dutch, Flemish
- stoel Dutch, Flemish
- uitzendbureau Dutch, Flemish
- uitzenden 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
- buro Afrikaans
- 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