burgeon

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/
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• Australian: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈbøː.d͡ʒən/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən
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• CMU ARPABET: B ER1 JH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English burjon, burjoun (“shoot, bud”), from Anglo-Norman burjun, burgeon, burgon (compare Old French burjon (“a bud”)), from Old Frankish *burjō (“sprout, offshoot, descendant”), from Proto-Germanic *burjô (“sprout, descendant, offshoot”), from Proto-Germanic *burjaną (“to raise up”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher-. Compare Old High German burjan, burien, burren (“to push up, raise”), Old English byrian (“to come up, occur”), Old English byre (“child, son, descendant”), Albanian buron (“sprout, spring, gush out”). More at bear. Alternate etymology derives Old French burjon (“bud”) from Vulgar Latin *burrionem, accusative of *burrio, from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff”) (presumably from the down covering certain buds).

From Middle English burjounen, from Old French borjoner, bourjoner, burjuner.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: парастак (parastak) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Catalan: brot — bud, sprout, shoot
• Catalan: lluc — bud, sprout, shoot
• Catalan: borró — bud, sprout, shoot
• Catalan: botó — bud, sprout, shoot
• Catalan: ull — bud, sprout, shoot
• Esperanto: burĝono — bud, sprout, shoot
• French: bourgeon — bud, sprout, shoot
• Hindi: कली (kalī) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Polish: pączek — bud, sprout, shoot
• Russian: росток (rostok) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Spanish: brote — bud, sprout, shoot
• Spanish: retoño — bud, sprout, shoot
• Swedish: knopp — bud, sprout, shoot
• Ukrainian: брунька (brunʹka) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Ukrainian: паросток (parostok) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Ukrainian: пуп'янок (pupʺjanok) — bud, sprout, shoot
• Bulgarian: процъфтявам (procǎftjavam) — to grow or expand
• Catalan: brotar — to grow or expand
• Catalan: rebrotar — to grow or expand
• Catalan: créixer — to grow or expand
• Czech: růst — to grow or expand
• Czech: rozrůstat se — to grow or expand
• Czech: vzkvétat — to grow or expand
• Czech: rozvíjet se — to grow or expand
• Dutch: uitgroeien — to grow or expand
• Dutch: opbloeien — to grow or expand
• Finnish: kasvaa — to grow or expand
• Finnish: kukoistaa — to grow or expand
• French: croître — to grow or expand
• German: sprießen — to grow or expand
• Hindi: तेजी से बढ़ना या फेलना (tejī se baṛhnā yā phelnā) — to grow or expand
• Polish: rozkwitać — to grow or expand
• Polish: rozkwitnąć — to grow or expand
• Polish: rozrastać się — to grow or expand
• Polish: rozrosnąć się — to grow or expand
• Portuguese: desabrochar — to grow or expand
• Russian: разрастаться (razrastatʹsja) — to grow or expand
• Spanish: medrar — to grow or expand
• Swedish: spira — to grow or expand
• Ukrainian: розростатися (rozrostatysja) — to grow or expand
• Finnish: paisua — to swell to the point of bursting
• French: bourgeonnerr — to swell to the point of bursting
• Polish: pęcznieć — to swell to the point of bursting
• Polish: napęcznieć — to swell to the point of bursting
• Polish: spęcznieć — to swell to the point of bursting
• Russian: наливаться (nalivatʹsja) — to swell to the point of bursting
• Bulgarian: цъфтя (cǎftja) — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Czech: kvést — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Czech: rašit — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Dutch: bloeien — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Finnish: kukoistaa — of plants, to bloom, bud
• French: fleurir — of plants, to bloom, bud
• French: bourgeonner — of plants, to bloom, bud
• German: sprießen — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Japanese: 萌える — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Polish: pączkować — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Polish: rozkwitać — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Polish: rozkwitnąć — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Romanian: înmuguri — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Romanian: înflori — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Russian: распускаться (raspuskatʹsja) — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Spanish: florecer — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Spanish: retoñar — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Swedish: knoppas — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Swedish: spira — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Ukrainian: розпускатися (rozpuskatysja) — of plants, to bloom, bud
• Ukrainian: розцвітати (rozcvitaty) — of plants, to bloom, bud