burr

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /bɜː/
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• Scotland: /bʌr/
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• New-Zealand: /bøː/
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• /beː/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /bɛː/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
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• homophone: bur
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• homophone: burr
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• homophone: birr (fern–fir–fur merger)
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• homophone: bare
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• homophone: bear (both fair–fur merger)
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• homophone: Burr
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• homophone: brr
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From Middle English burre, perhaps related to Old English byrst (“bristle”). Cognate with Danish burre, borre (“burdock, burr”), Swedish borre (“sea-urchin”).

Onomatopoeic, influenced by bur. Compare to French bruire.

Like brough, an alternative form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of those terms, borough, Brough, burrow, and Bury.

From burl.

111 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: splinter — sliver or splinter
• Esperanto: splitaĵo — sliver or splinter
• Estonian: pind — sliver or splinter
• Finnish: säle — sliver or splinter
• Finnish: sälö — sliver or splinter
• French: écharde — sliver or splinter
• German: Splitter — sliver or splinter
• Italian: scheggia — sliver or splinter
• Spanish: astilla — sliver or splinter
• Spanish: limadura — sliver or splinter
• Spanish: esquirla — sliver or splinter
• Belarusian: калю́чка (kaljúčka) — seed pod with sharp features
• Belarusian: дзед (dzjed) — seed pod with sharp features
• Bulgarian: ле́пка (lépka) — seed pod with sharp features
• Czech: kulička z lopuchu — seed pod with sharp features
• Czech: ostnatý plod — seed pod with sharp features
• Estonian: takjas — seed pod with sharp features
• Finnish: takiaispallo — seed pod with sharp features
• Finnish: takiainen — seed pod with sharp features
• French: bardane — seed pod with sharp features
• Galician: ourizo — seed pod with sharp features
• Georgian: ეკალი (eḳali) — seed pod with sharp features
• German: Klette — seed pod with sharp features
• Hungarian: bogáncs — seed pod with sharp features
• Italian: riccio — seed pod with sharp features
• Komi-Zyrian: репей (repej) — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: hutiwai — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: pirikahu — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: piripiri — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: kaiārurerure — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: kaikaiārure — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: kaiā — seed pod with sharp features
• Māori: piriwhetau — seed pod with sharp features
• Eastern Mari: коршаҥге (koršaŋge) — seed pod with sharp features
• Western Mari: каржангы (karžangy) — seed pod with sharp features
• Polish: zadzior — seed pod with sharp features
• Portuguese: ouriço — seed pod with sharp features
• Portuguese: carrapicho — seed pod with sharp features
• Russian: репе́й (repéj) — seed pod with sharp features
• Russian: колю́чка (koljúčka) — seed pod with sharp features
• Spanish: cadillo — seed pod with sharp features
• Swedish: kardborre — seed pod with sharp features
• Udmurt: люгы (ľugy) — seed pod with sharp features
• Ukrainian: реп'я́х (repʺjáx) — seed pod with sharp features
• Ukrainian: колю́чка (koljúčka) — seed pod with sharp features
• Czech: otřep — material left on an edge after cutting
• Dutch: braam — material left on an edge after cutting
• French: barbe — material left on an edge after cutting
• Galician: rebarba — material left on an edge after cutting
• German: Grat — material left on an edge after cutting
• Italian: sbavatura — material left on an edge after cutting
• Italian: bava — material left on an edge after cutting
• Japanese: バリ (bari) — material left on an edge after cutting
• Portuguese: rebarba — material left on an edge after cutting
• Russian: заусе́нец (zausénec) — material left on an edge after cutting
• Russian: грат (grat) — material left on an edge after cutting
• Russian: зади́р (zadír) — material left on an edge after cutting
• Spanish: rebaba — material left on an edge after cutting
• Spanish: filván — material left on an edge after cutting
• Swedish: grad — material left on an edge after cutting
• Turkish: çapak — material left on an edge after cutting
• Czech: (zubařská) vrtačka — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• Estonian: käi — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• German: Mahlscheibe — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• German: Mahlstein — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• German: Mahlwerk — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• Italian: macina — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• Spanish: muela — revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces
• Finnish: pörinä — rough humming sound
• Basque: kirrimarra — pronunciation of "r"
• Czech: ráčkování — pronunciation of "r"
• Danish: bagtunge-r — pronunciation of "r"
• Esperanto: kartavo — pronunciation of "r"
• Esperanto: kartavado — pronunciation of "r"
• Finnish: ärrävika — pronunciation of "r"
• Finnish: sora-r — pronunciation of "r"
• French: grasseyement — pronunciation of "r"
• Greek: λαρυγγισμός (laryngismós) — pronunciation of "r"
• Hungarian: raccsolás — pronunciation of "r"
• Ido: kartavo — pronunciation of "r"
• Italian: erre moscia — pronunciation of "r"
• Norwegian: skarre-r — pronunciation of "r"
• Polish: reranie — pronunciation of "r"
• Polish: grasejowanie — pronunciation of "r"
• Portuguese: rotacismo — pronunciation of "r"
• Romanian: graseiere — pronunciation of "r"
• Russian: карта́вость (kartávostʹ) — pronunciation of "r"
• Russian: грасси́рование (grassírovanije) — pronunciation of "r"
• Slovak: ráčkovanie — pronunciation of "r"
• Spanish: erre francesa — pronunciation of "r"
• Swedish: tungrots-r — pronunciation of "r"
• Swedish: skorrning — pronunciation of "r"
• Czech: ráčkovat — to pronounce "r"
• Dutch: brouwen — to pronounce "r"
• Esperanto: kartavi — to pronounce "r"
• Estonian: põristama — to pronounce "r"
• Finnish: sorauttaa — to pronounce "r"
• French: grasseyer — to pronounce "r"
• German: ratschen — to pronounce "r"
• Hungarian: raccsol — to pronounce "r"
• Ido: kartavar — to pronounce "r"
• Italian: parlare con la erre moscia — to pronounce "r"
• Polish: rerać — to pronounce "r"
• Polish: grasejować — to pronounce "r"
• Romanian: graseia — to pronounce "r"
• Russian: карта́вить (kartávitʹ) — to pronounce "r"
• Russian: грасси́ровать (grassírovatʹ) — to pronounce "r"
• Slovak: ráčkovať — to pronounce "r"
• Spanish: arrastrar las erres — to pronounce "r"
• Swedish: skorra — to pronounce "r"
• Ukrainian: грасирувати (hrasyruvaty) — to pronounce "r"