different between burgh vs murgh

English

Etymology

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”).

Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian ???? (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???/
  • Homophone: borough
  • Rhymes: -?r?
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??/
  • Homophones: berg, burg
  • Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

burgh (plural burghs)

1. (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
2. (Britain) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [1]

     With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.

   • 1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,

     This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.

Derived terms

• Blythburgh
• Edinburgh
• royal burgh

Translations

Anagrams

• Brugh

English

Alternative forms

• murg

Etymology

From Persian ???? (mor?).

Noun

murgh (uncountable)

1. (Indian cookery) chicken
   • 1976, Chicago (volume 25, page 125)

     Our other entrée was murgh massalam ($3.50), half a chicken of fall-off-the-bone tenderness in a rich brown cream sauce garnished with a whole hard-boiled egg.

   • 2014, Laura Siciliano-Rosen, Delhi Food and Travel Guide

     But of those bold curries, butter chicken, or murgh makhani, is the richest of all.

   • 2015, Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Best of France 2016 Petit Futé

     As a starter, the murgh tikka are pieces of chicken breast marinated cooked in tandoor that can be prepared in various ways with various spices with crushed cashew nuts and cream, or spinach, spices and coriander.