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Middle English

Alternative forms

• boure

Etymology

From Old English b?r; more at bower.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?r/

Noun

bour (plural bours)

1. A chamber or a cottage.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale

     Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle,
     In which she eet ful many a sclendre meel.

Descendants

• English: bower
• Scots: bour

References

• “b?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• (archaic) bu?r, buar, boar

Etymology

From Latin b?balus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (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)

1. aurochs (Bos primigenius)
2. wild bull
3. wisent (Bison bonasus)
4. the old emblem of Moldova (with the head of a wisent)

Declension

Synonyms

• (wisent): zimbru

See also

• bou

English

Etymology

From Middle English boun, from Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“to prepare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?n/

Adjective

boun (comparative more boun, superlative most boun)

1. (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
   • c. 1375, John Barbour, The Brus; or, The metrical history of Robert I, King of Scots.

     To this thai all assentyt ar, And bad thair men all mak thaim yar For to be boune, agayne that day, On the best wiss that cuir thai may.

Verb

boun (third-person singular simple present bouns, present participle bouning, simple past and past participle bouned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.

Derived terms

• bound

References

• boun at OneLook Dictionary Search
• boun in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• BuNo

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse búinn, past participle of búa (“prepare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?un/

Adjective

boun (comparative mair boun, superlative maist boun)

1. ready, prepared

   Therefore ever thou mak thee boun / To obey, and thank thy God of all. — Robert Henryson, ‘The Abbey Walk’