different between birk vs biro

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??(?)k/
• Homophone: berk
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English birk, birke, byrke, a northern variant of Middle English birche (“birch”). More at birch.(tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

Noun

birk (plural birks)

1. (Northern English) A birch tree.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dirge

     the silver birk

2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

Etymology 2

Noun

birk (plural birks)

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk

References

• birk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse bj?rk.

Noun

birk c (singular definite birken, plural indefinite birke)

1. (botany) birch

References

• “birk” in Den Danske Ordbog

Middle English

Noun

birk

1. Alternative form of birche

Scots

Alternative forms

• byrk, birke, byrke

Etymology

From Old English birce or bier?e. Cognate with Middle English birch and Northern Middle English birk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?rk/, /?b?rk/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /?b?rk/

Noun

birk (plural birks)

1. A birch tree.

Derived terms

• birken
  • birkenshaw

English

Etymology

From the BIRO brand of pens made by the BIC corporation, which were named after László Bíró, the inventor of the pen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ba?.???/
• Rhymes: -a????

Noun

biro (plural biros)

1. A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
   • 1993, Iain Banks, Complicity, 2008, unnumbered page,

     Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.

2. (by extension, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Any ballpoint pen.
   • 2007, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, page 250,

     Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.

3. (by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
   • 2011, Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Completely Spotless, unnumbered page,

     ‘My very creative 2-year-old son used my good friend?s white polyester Roman blinds as a canvas,’ says Jacqui. They?re now covered in blue biro. And although my friend isn?t too bothered by the biro, I am! Can you help??

Translations

Further reading

• biro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• brio, ribo-

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?biro/
• Hyphenation: bi?ro
• Rhymes: -iro

Noun

biro (accusative singular biron, plural biroj, accusative plural birojn)

1. (directional) bearing

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer, French bière, German Bier, Italian birra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?biro/

Noun

biro (plural biri)

1. beer

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bureau (“bureau”), from French bureau, from Middle French burel, from Old French burel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ro/
• Hyphenation: bi?ro

Noun

biro

1. bureau: office.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “biro” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi.ro/
• Rhymes: -iro

Noun

biro f (invariable)

1. ballpoint pen, biro

   Synonym: penna a sfera

Anagrams

• bori, brio, orbi

Ngazidja Comorian

Etymology

From French bureau.

Noun

biro 5 (plural mabiro 6)

1. office (building or room)

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?piro/

Noun

biro

1. devil

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bìr? n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. office

   Synonyms: kancelàrija, úred

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi???o?/

Noun

biro

1. A joke.

Inflection

• biruan: joke between two or more parties about anything

Verb

biro

1. To jest or make fun of in a friendly, pacifistic manner.

Conjugation

Yagara

Noun

biro

1. sir (term of address)

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.