bour

See also: Bour

Middle English

Alternative forms

boure, bowre, bowur
(early) bur

Etymology

From Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buːr/

Noun

bour (plural boures)

A residence, house, or dwelling.
A bedroom or chamber (especially of a woman).
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 99, verso:
  fful sooty was hire bour / and eek hire halle / In which she eet / ful many a sklendre meel
  Her room was really sooty, and so was her hall; / there she ate plenty of lean meals
(figuratively) Something's resting place.
(rare) A pen or stall for an animal.

Related terms

neyghebour

Descendants

English: bower
Scots: bour

References

“bǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

bour

Alternative forms

(archaic) buăr, buar, boar

Etymology

From Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). It may have passed through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form or was influenced by bubulus; cf. the form bobulum. Compare also Albanian buall. Doublet of bivol, which came through a Slavic source.

Noun

bour m (plural bouri)

aurochs (Bos primigenius)
wild bull
wisent (Bison bonasus)
the old emblem of Moldova (with the head of a wisent)

Declension

Declension of bour

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bour	bourul	(niște) bouri	bourii
genitive/dative	(unui) bour	bourului	(unor) bouri	bourilor
vocative	bourule		bourilor

Synonyms

(wisent): zimbru