buron

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French buron, from Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (“cabin, hut”), from Frankish *būr (“dwelling, residence”), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“room, chamber, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become, live, dwell”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“room, cage”), English bower, Swedish bur (“hutch, coop, cage”). Doublet of bower.

Noun

buron (plural burons)

1. (often italicized) A traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof, or a rustic mountain chalet in the same style.
   • 1996, Simone A. Abram, “Reactions to Tourism: A View from the Deep Green Heart of France”, in Jeremy Boissevain, editor, Coping with Tourists‎, →ISBN, page 194:

     According to Jaques, too, most of the tourists at the buron were French people with 'farming roots'

Anagrams

• Bornu, Bourn, Broun, Bruno, bourn

Albanian

Alternative forms

• vrujon

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bhrē̆u- (“wellspring”), ultimately from *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to bear”). Compare Old High German brunno (“wellspring”), burjan (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”).

Verb

buron (aorist burova, participle buruar)

1. (it) springs, gushs, flows

Related terms

• burim
• burth
• buronjë
• burishtë

French

Etymology

From Middle French buron, from Old French buiron (“cabin, hut”), from Frankish *būr (“dwelling, residence”), from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“room, chamber, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become, live, dwell”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“room, cage”), English bower, Swedish bur (“hutch, coop, cage”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

buron m (plural burons)

1. a traditional Auvergne shepherd's hut with a thatched roof

Further reading

• “buron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Bruno

Indonesian

Etymology

Equivalent to buru +‎ -an, from Javanese ꦧꦸꦫꦺꦴꦤ꧀ (buron). Doublet of buruan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /burɔn/
• Hyphenation: bu‧rón
• Rhymes: -rɔn, -ɔn

Noun

burón (first-person possessive buronku, second-person possessive buronmu, third-person possessive buronnya)

1. fugitive

Alternative forms

• burun

Derived terms

• buronan
• memburon

 

Further reading

• “buron” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.